…and if if it an open standard… how come every time I come to work with it…
- I can only find HUGE proprietary apps on (macos x)
- I get an icky feeling in my stomach
- Even the eclipse plugin kinda sucks
XML is fab until you actually want to use it… or is that just me?
Not just you. XML is reaching a crisis point.
Here, here! I can hardly read it, the machine can hardly parse it, what was the point again?
Remember when apps would publish the file formats in the Appendix?!
XML was/is a fab scam, I totally fell for the idea. Especially the DTD idea, where, before you start reading a file you can “know” whether or not that the data is what it is meant to be.
The “best” bit of XML, for me, is XMLRPC where I never ever touch the XML in python and just deal with things I’m used to like strings, lists, dictonaries etc (regardless of what language I’m using).