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by sethops1 115 days ago
If you think XML is a failed technology you haven't stepped foot anywhere near a serious enterprise company.
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bryanlarsen 115 days ago
It's a failed technology for websites.
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drusepth 115 days ago
How is it failed? Just compared to, like, the prevalence of HTML?

I've worked in web dev for almost 20 years. Almost every year has had some kind of work with XML.

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bryanlarsen 115 days ago
Client side? i think not. 25 years ago we were told web sites were going to make their data available in nice machine readable XML form which would be transformed by xslt etc into presentation form and available for machine use without the presentation form. Same promise as semantic HTML but earlier, and same promise as webmcp now.
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syradar 115 days ago
We are using HTML and not XHTML. I have not used XML on websites in over 15 years when HTML5 got stable.
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HeWhoLurksLate 115 days ago
the CNC machine I'm working retrofitting right now has XML definitions for basically the entire thing from GPIO setup to machine size parameters. Kinda crazy but at least it isn't a cursed hex file
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