Comment by 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

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.

  • you must find reading HTML a slog.

    • I do. That's why I have a browser render it to a format that makes sense for human consumption.

      Granted, html actually makes sense in the xml-ish (I don't remember if it's technically compliant), since it weaves formatting into semantically uninterrupted text.

      If that's not the case, I don't see a real benefit to use XML over anything sane (not yaml... Binary formats depending on use case)

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