Comment by airstrike
5 years ago
Do people really pick XML as a go-to format these days? Probably easier to list what's not wrong with it
5 years ago
Do people really pick XML as a go-to format these days? Probably easier to list what's not wrong with it
Yes, unfortunately, if you're in an environment where people have been using XML forever and are more comfortable with it than any other alternative. When you find yourself needing to write an XPath to update a simple app configuration parameter, you know you're in hell.
Well, these days 22 years have passed since the original file format was designed -- and not by me, though I probably would have done the same thing, 22 years ago.
Also, it's zip + xml files + binary files, not all xml.
Well, I was responding to the "what's wrong with xml + zip" question, not your remark on your predecessor