Does anybody miss XML?
IMHO, XML was the most over-complicated interoperability sidetrack, ever.
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No. XML was just the first human-readable interoperable standard for data. Before that, files were all binary and it was terribly difficult to understand their formats and fool proof their parsers.
Thanks for the redirect. You’re right.
I remember in the late 90s when folks were experimenting with sending data with HTML and XML, both children of SGML.
Still very difficult human-readable, though.
RSS is a sky island of the lost world of XML.
I am looking forward to a world where every feed is an npub
xmlns="http://fu.bar"