▲ 1233 ▼ AI's take on XML (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml 132 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) do they do that in xml? never seen that permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago I have actually seen it in an XML file in the wild. Never quite understood why they did it. Anything they encoded into there, they could have just added a node for. But it was an XML format that was widely used in a big company, so presumably somewhere someone wrote a shitty XML parser that can't deal with additional nodes. Or they were just scared of touching the existing structure, I don't know. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago I have actually seen it in an XML file in the wild. Never quite understood why they did it. Anything they encoded into there, they could have just added a node for. But it was an XML format that was widely used in a big company, so presumably somewhere someone wrote a shitty XML parser that can't deal with additional nodes. Or they were just scared of touching the existing structure, I don't know. permalink fedilink source parent
