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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 21 08:00:51 2025
    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as “Echh Smell” ...

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  • From Ethan Carter@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Mon Apr 21 16:12:22 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as “Echh Smell” ...

    Lol. Not me.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Tue Apr 22 21:00:03 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 08:00 this Monday (GMT):
    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as “Echh Smell” ...


    I'm sure someone has, but that feels wrong to me.
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 22 22:39:40 2025
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 08:00 this Monday (GMT):

    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as “Echh Smell” ...

    I'm sure someone has, but that feels wrong to me.

    The musing was prompted by some who feel JSON is the bee’s knees, and who look on XML as, shall we say, Old Skool ...

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  • From mm0fmf@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Wed Apr 23 06:39:56 2025
    On 22/04/2025 23:39, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 08:00 this Monday (GMT):

    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as “Echh Smell” ...

    I'm sure someone has, but that feels wrong to me.

    The musing was prompted by some who feel JSON is the bee’s knees, and who look on XML as, shall we say, Old Skool ...

    There's a famous quote about XML....


    XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not
    using enough of it.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 24 00:16:26 2025
    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:39:56 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it.

    I was slightly disillusioned when I found that there were certain
    characters that were not allowed in XML files, even when entity-encoded.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Apr 25 04:30:03 2025
    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:16 this Thursday (GMT):
    On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 06:39:56 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:

    XML is like violence – if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not
    using enough of it.

    I was slightly disillusioned when I found that there were certain
    characters that were not allowed in XML files, even when entity-encoded.


    You could always use unicode, maybe?
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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Apr 25 10:13:50 2025
    On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 04:30:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:16 this Thursday (GMT):

    I was slightly disillusioned when I found that there were certain
    characters that were not allowed in XML files, even when entity-encoded.

    You could always use unicode, maybe?

    Not even Unicode. Just a CTRL/C character.

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  • From Jim Jackson@21:1/5 to Lawrence D'Oliveiro on Fri Apr 25 17:32:33 2025
    On 2025-04-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 08:00 this Monday (GMT):

    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as ???Echh Smell??? ...

    I'm sure someone has, but that feels wrong to me.

    The musing was prompted by some who feel JSON is the bee???s knees, and who look on XML as, shall we say, Old Skool ...

    XML old skool!!!!!?????

    Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text files :-)

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to Jim Jackson on Fri Apr 25 19:21:12 2025
    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:

    XML old skool!!!!!?????

    Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text
    files :-)

    Timeless! \o/

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Jim Jackson on Fri Apr 25 23:29:00 2025
    On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:32:33 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson wrote:

    XML old skool!!!!!?????

    I think it was down to its verbosity and syntactic clutter compared to something a bit more concise, like JSON.

    Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text files
    :-)

    CSV is popular because of its simplicity (once you get past some annoying little dialectic variations). I even added SYLK export in a project once, though I suspect nobody else remembers what that is any more ... (DIF, anybody?)

    There are other ancient formats that remain popular because they are so
    simple to both generate and parse. E.g. with all the advances in 3D
    graphics technology over the past few decades, good old OBJ remains in
    common use as a basic format for transferring large amounts of geometry
    between different apps.

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to Jim Jackson on Sun Apr 27 06:00:04 2025
    Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote at 17:32 this Friday (GMT):
    On 2025-04-22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:00:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

    Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 08:00 this Monday (GMT):

    ... if anybody ever referred to XML as ???Echh Smell??? ...

    I'm sure someone has, but that feels wrong to me.

    The musing was prompted by some who feel JSON is the bee???s knees, and who >> look on XML as, shall we say, Old Skool ...

    XML old skool!!!!!?????

    Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text files :-)


    Being old doesn't mean it's bad :D
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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to snipeco.2@gmail.com on Mon Apr 28 20:20:04 2025
    Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote at 14:08 this Sunday (GMT):
    candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
    wrote:
    [...]
    XML old skool!!!!!?????

    Bloody 'ell, does that make me pre-historic in prefering csv text files :-)


    Being old doesn't mean it's bad :D


    There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.


    Yeah, and USENET itself :>
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