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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by Bombthecat on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:30AM (#24118659)
Maybe the author meant a html DSL language for documents? A bit like, i think, the ebook format i can't remember.
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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by phre4k on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:30AM (#24118930)
Epub uses lots of XML.
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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:04AM (#24132737)
> Epub uses lots of XML.

EPUB3 uses an XML packaging document, and the XML serialization of HTML5, so it doesn't really use lots of XML as opposed to HTML.

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