Sept. 12, 2013
11:07 a.m.
Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
What's wrong with XML.
It's hideously verbose; it doesn't actually provide a representation of the data (it only provides structure); it has awkward corners that end up poorly tested; as it's a textual format it's subject to all the usual problems around character sets; the context encourages the use of forgiving parsers for the actual textual data representation, which leads to incompatibility; and it's a bad design in the first place because it tries to tackle too many classes of job. -zefram