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by c0wb0yc0d3r 92 days ago
Surely this is a product of the fact that XML is just more extensible (it’s in the name after all).

If you tried to represent the data (exactly) from any of the examples in the post, I think you’d find that you’d experience many of the same problems.

Personally, I think the problem with XML has always been the tooling. Slow parsers, incomplete validators