• TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    YAML is never appropriate. XML is also never appropriate.

    There might be some fine parts of XML. If somebody made a subset of XML with just the good parts, I might be convinced that was a fine and decent thing that was “sometimes appropriate.” But XML is more than just angle brackets and forward slashes. With namespaces and XSL and XPath and DTDs and schemas and entities, it’s a Lovecraftian mess of madess from which death is the only respite.

    http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/