Programmer Humor

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[–] LukeChriswalker@feddit.de 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I mean it's valid XML

It's just not useful

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It isn't valid XML. No root node.

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[–] LukeChriswalker@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

We may just not see it but fair point

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 years ago

The editor would need to start counting lines at zero.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The line numbers show us that we're seeing the whole file.

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[–] LukeChriswalker@feddit.de 8 points 2 years ago

Oh ur right

Ew I didn't notice

That's awful

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[–] Joe_0237@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

They only (probably) show us that we are seeing the begining of the file. Also relative line numbing is a thing in vim for example.

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[+] qaz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago*

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

Could it be an xml entity (or whatever it’s called) that you reference from another xml file? Do those require root nodes?