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Not to everyone. Some of us greybeards tried to warn against it :

"XML is simply lisp done wrong." — Alan Cox

but the gee-whizzery won.

"XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files" — unknown

"XML is a classic political compromise: it balances the needs of man and machine by being equally unreadable to both." — Matthew Might

Anyone remember XHTML ?




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