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by WesSouza 1305 days ago
One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems*, this author really missed the Forest for the trees.

*unless of course one system is scraping the other and has no control of what it outputs.
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zulu-inuoe 1304 days ago
You have to put it in context, though. This was back in 1999. Plenty of people even today push for semantic HTML. HTML is said to represent a document, and documents have structure. So I'm sure it wasn't all that uncommon to take it to mean that this structure was machine readable.
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coldtea 1304 days ago
>One would never use HTML to transfer data between two systems

And yet it happened all the time back in the day, and there was even a big push to get into XML-izing html to xhtml and make it stricter and parsable and "semantic".

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