Comment by ongy

3 months ago

EAD does indeed look like a good example of why we shouldn't use XML.

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bryanrasmussen  3 months ago

hah hah yeah, these scoped content examples would be a joy to do in JSON

https://www.loc.gov/ead/tglib1998/tlin125.html

  • ongy  3 months ago

    Yes. A sane schema that actually encapsulates the data would be a lot easier to read.

    Earlier I had only seen the mix of values in body and values in tags. With one even being a tag called "value".

    Thanks for showing more examples of XML being used to write unreadable messes.