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The lost art of XML — mmagueta (marcosmagueta.com)
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There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. "Oh, XML," they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. "We use JSON now. Much cleaner."

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

IMO, the best thing about YAML is the referencing. It's super easy to reuse an object multiple times. Gives that same kind of parten child struct ability that programming languages have. Sure XML can do it, but it's not in every parser. cough python built in parser cough But then YAML is also not a built in parser and doing DOM in things other than XML feels odd.

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