19 Oct
2007
19 Oct
'07
9:32 a.m.
Richard Lewis richardlewis@fastmail.co.uk wrote:
It would be interesting to find out just how prevalent XML really is. Where is XML really being applied? [...]
I use it extensively for inter-system communication. One problem is that some systems which claim to be providing XML don't provide XML (even Wordpress seems to get it wrong, especially if there's a plugin or two) so you do need to handle the failure case, which I think upsets some people, but it's something programmers should do anyway. You can't trust any system these days - not even yours.
It's also quite a nice way to pass S-expressions to things that don't use Lisp ;-)
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