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Once upon a time, many years ago, there was a specification called XML,
which was mostly based on SGML, and it was good. Documents in the
format specified were easy to read. But nowadays whenever anyone
mentions XML they don't mean that. They mean what came next.
You see, the crack-monkeys were set loose. XML wasn't complicated
enough, so they added namespaces, and schemas, and XSLT (which has to be
one of the stupidest ideas of all time, a programming language with even
more brackets than lisp, even less maintainable than the worst perl, and
with even more mutually incompatible bug-ridden implementations than
java) and a thousand other Xrandomletters and so forth.
Now, I hear that schemas are being deprecated in favour of some new and
exciting way of making my brane hurt. Please dear god give me back my
DTDs!
But this is hates-software, not hates-idiots-on-standards-committees. I
hate XML software because it is either simple to use and understand but
barfs on any document which attempts to conform to the current specs (that
is, almost any document); or is bloated, bug-ridden, poorly documented
and has a zillion dependencies all of which are themselves hateful.
--
Grand Inquisitor David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
attractivating: inducing the quality of being attractive,
especially to members of the appropriate sex. -- Henrik Levkowetz
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