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AI's take on XML (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by renzev@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

do they do that in xml? never seen that

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months 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.