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Re:XML Appliance by Blackthorn on Thursday March 30, 2023 @03:44PM (#35377880)
I would not call machine-produced XML at all human-readable.

Of course, I suppose some amount of human-readability is pretty important. It's why textproto became a de-facto standard for protobufs.

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Re:XML Appliance by dogma1138 on Thursday March 30, 2023 @04:06PM (#35378162)
They are quite often not, but the. XML does have style sheets which make things a bit easier since every browser can render an XML into a human only readable format that way.
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Re:XML Appliance by zmix on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:57AM (#35382772)
"Human readable" in XML lingo means, actually, "Human readable after transformation". Or: add some CSS to it and it's easily consumable.
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