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XML is a pain to parse properly. Have you seen how large XML libraries are? It's also complex in the fact that it adds extra bytes. Imagine a 10 Mb XML file...
by omouse 19y ago
XML is a pain to parse properly. Have you seen how large XML libraries are?
It's also complex in the fact that it adds extra bytes. Imagine a 10 Mb XML file....now figure out how much of that is space wasted on closing tags.
- olavk 19y agoXML syntax has a certain amount of redundancy. This is a feature which makes it easier to manually write or edit XML using a simple text editor, which is one of the use cases that XML was designed to support.