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There's nothing wrong with XML.

• bryanlarsen 8mo ago
  The parent post is a list of failed technologies. Perhaps XML failed for a bad reason, but fail it did. Web MCP will likely fail for the same reasons as the other listed techs.
  • sethops1 8mo ago
    If you think XML is a failed technology you haven't stepped foot anywhere near a serious enterprise company.
    • HeWhoLurksLate 8mo ago
      the CNC machine I'm working retrofitting right now has XML definitions for basically the entire thing from GPIO setup to machine size parameters. Kinda crazy but at least it isn't a cursed hex file
    • bryanlarsen 8mo ago
      It's a failed technology for websites.
      • drusepth 8mo ago
        How is it failed? Just compared to, like, the prevalence of HTML? I've worked in web dev for almost 20 years. Almost every year has had some kind of work with XML.
        • syradar 8mo ago
          We are using HTML and not XHTML. I have not used XML on websites in over 15 years when HTML5 got stable.
        • bryanlarsen 8mo ago
          Client side? i think not. 25 years ago we were told web sites were going to make their data available in nice machine readable XML form which would be transformed by xslt etc into presentation form and available for machine use without the presentation form. Same promise as semantic HTML but earlier, and same promise as webmcp now.
  • ekjhgkejhgk 8mo ago
    By what criterion is XML a "failed technology"?