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It failed because nobody wanted to use it. Nobody built a compelling product from it, nobody wanted to author the data, nobody cared to use it when anyone did.
by bastawhiz 1y ago
It failed because nobody wanted to use it. Nobody built a compelling product from it, nobody wanted to author the data, nobody cared to use it when anyone did. It wasn't killed, it never got started because it never had a useful purpose.
- phatskat 1y agoI remember learning XML and XSLT from library books in the late 90’s and found it interesting, but couldn’t find a use for it - I wasn’t really handling data in any meaningful way back then, it was all just hobby learning, but in the decades since I’ve touched XML _at all_ maybe three times? Once was a Salesforce integration I wish I could fully forget, the other times were client one-offs when they had a few things stored in XML that we needed to pipe into WordPress.