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Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by j_baker on Sunday January 30, 2011 @07:21PM (#2159689)
I don't think it's fair to call XML a failure any more than you can call Perl a failure. XML does the job, and it's still used in a lot of places. It's just that it's being supplanted by a newer technology that is superior for the majority of use-cases.
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Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by joe_the_user on Sunday January 30, 2011 @10:52PM (#2160201)
XML is being abandoned as the medium for a variety of APIs at the moment (Google and Facebook especially). It looks like failure when my XSLT code deprecated before I can even release it.
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Re:Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPu... by flashgordon on Sunday January 30, 2011 @10:16PM (#2160128)
umm do you mean "superior" in regards to capabilities or regards to simplicity. You could just as well argue that JSON replacing XML is akin to XML replacing SGML.
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