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by oytis 107 days ago
XML is still around, but I don't think many people would choose it as a serialization format today for something new.
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The use of XML as a data serialization format was always a bad choice. It was designed as a document _markup_ language (it’s in the name), which is exactly the way it’s being used for Claude, and is actually a good use case.