Re:A Brief Defense of XML
by phoehne on Friday January 06, 2023 @10:35PM
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I don't miss it. I had several projects where it seemed like a good idea. I pushed it as a good idea. I really wanted it to work. Some developers (usually the sharper bulbs) got it. A lot of developers really struggled with it. Especially the folks who were 'front end' developers. Even in the 2000's, when everything was trying to go XML, staffing those roles was hard.
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Re:A Brief Defense of XML
by giantrobot on Friday January 06, 2023 @11:22PM
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Tooling was XSLT's Achilles heel. Too many tools had no or poor XSLT support. What's confusing to me is a lot of the JavaScript templating today has equally bad tooling yet everyone's in love with it.
Doesn't that suggest that tooling wasn't the issue after all?
Re:A Brief Defense of XML
by giantrobot on Saturday January 07, 2023 @03:19PM
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The lack of tooling for XSLT and modern JavaScript stuff are on different sides of the adoption curve. XSLT lacked tooling on the upside of the curve so it never hit critical mass. Its other problems could have been solved had it hit critical mass and seen wider adoption.