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Re:The Power of Prolog by OrangeRange on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:34AM (#37477875)
When working in Java a couple of years ago I once ran into a random Prolog error. Turns out that the XML parser used by a large subset of the Java world is written in Prolog

(Hint: the error came from an Apache lib, just like in this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3030903/content-is-not-a...)

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Re:The Power of Prolog by tannhaeuser on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:56AM (#37478010)
Nope, that's a misunderstanding on your part I'm afraid. The "prolog" in that error message/SO question refers to an XML prolog, which is the part in an SGML/XML document up to the first content element ie. an XML declaration and a DTD, both optional.
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Re:The Power of Prolog by jodrellblank on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @08:40AM (#37495957)
That's https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prologue - "the preface or introduction to a literary work".
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