XML Considered Harmful

[Greg Ewing]

On 25/09/21 6:29 am, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> don't forget that
> XML was intended to replace SGML, and that SGML was intended to mark up
> text, not represent any data.

And for me this is the number one reason why XML is the wrong
tool for almost everything it's used for nowadays.

It's bizarre. It's as though there were a large community of
professional builders who insisted on using hammers to drive
scews, and extolled the advantages of doing so.

-- 
Greg