XML Considered Harmful
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 24 19:46:14 EDT 2021
On 25/09/21 6:29 am, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> don't forget that
> XML was intended to replace SGML, and that SGML was intended to mark up
> text, not represent any data.
And for me this is the number one reason why XML is the wrong
tool for almost everything it's used for nowadays.
It's bizarre. It's as though there were a large community of
professional builders who insisted on using hammers to drive
scews, and extolled the advantages of doing so.
--
Greg
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