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Some of it deserved to die, mostly because it was misused. I don’t know how many times I had to manually write <![CDATA[ … ]]> I know all markup languages hav

• shadowgovt 11mo ago
  It has, I think, one nice feature that few markups I use these days have: every node is strongly-typed, which makes things like XSLT much cleaner to implement (you can tell what the intended semantics of a thing is so you aren't left guessing or hacking it in with __metadata fields). ... but the legibility and hand-maintainability was colossally painful. Having to tag-match the closing tags even though the language semantics required that the next closing tag close the current context was an awful, awful amount of (on the keyboard) typing.