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  • XML is doomed (Score:1)

    by mstevens (544) on 2003.02.28 13:33 (#17618)
    The more popular XML is getting, the more it's becoming like HTML. RSS is the most end-user XML application, and validity of generated RSS is so bad reasonable numbers of people seem to have started writing non-XML parsers to read it and accept anything...
    • Well it doesn't help when you have something like XHTML, which is supposed to be a gateway drug to XML somehow, except that people write their XHTML in non-validating editors, and so the vast majority of XHTML out there isn't XHTML at all, and if it's not XML then it really is pointless to bother. Which, is why I support the "XHTML considered harmful" gang.

      If more people would use XSLT then that would improve the situation a lot, since it can only output valid XML (in most situations).

      These people who are
      • These people who are outputting bad RSS ... what tools are they using to create it?

        Probably Perl, or PHP or ASP. And not using tools, just using strings.
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