xml stands for excellent markup language
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@aeva It really is! Its greatest downfall was that people wanted it to be a serialization format, didn't understand the difference, and made giant messes.
I still wish XHTML was a thing, because people still think that what counts as "valid HTML" is well defined but it absolutely isn't
@[email protected] I'm going to say it: if as an industry we'd done SOAP properly and built the tooling to support it in more languages, it would have been awesome. XSD is so much better than json schema for specifying a domain.
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@[email protected] Of course, we were never going to do it properly. The very first paid dev work I did was integration software between a UK fire and rescue service and a brand new reporting service set up by the national government for collecting stats.
During the launch, the project lead on the government side pulled me aside to thank me for writing the only implementation out of over fifty that sent xml that validated. Several of the other implementations were written by large consulting firms at orders of magnitude greater cost.
@aeva Bill and Ted’s XML Adventure
