XML The Evil Adult

Posted June 21, 2009 * Comments(3)

Entertaining if long winded rant from Erik Naggum:

When the markup overhead exceeds 200%, when attributes values and element
contents compete for the information, when the distance between 99%
of the “tags” is /zero/, when the character set is Unicode, and when
validation takes more time than processing, not to mention the sorry
fact that information longevity is more /threatened/ by XML than by
any other data representation in the history of computing, then SGML
has gone from good kid, via bad teenager, to malfunctioning, evil
adult as XML.

3 Comments so far

  1. ticking on September 2nd, 2009

    That what was I thought when I wrote this:
    http://bitbucket.org/ticking/spell/

    Oh and thank you very much for the DotDict :)

    Greets Jan

  2. Parand on September 2nd, 2009

    Jan – nice. I’ll have to check that out in detail.

  3. ticking on September 2nd, 2009

    Just corrected a small bug with mixed indent should work like a charm now.^^

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