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Re:XML is better than YAML by ImPostingOnHN on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @08:18PM (#37591763)
> the XML document still only contains text data

this is like saying Java is untyped because the source files are just text

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Re:XML is better than YAML by tremon on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:47AM (#37597564)
Only if you cut off the sentence like you did.

My full sentence is more like saying Java is untyped if it were possible to run Java source files from the AST while skipping the type validation step, which seems pretty much a truism to me.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by kaba0 on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:40AM (#37599321)
Is there anything that is type safe without a type validation step? That doesn’t really make sense.
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