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Re:XML is better than YAML by boredtofears on Thursday September 21, 2023 @09:21PM (#37606721)
Because it doesn't make it to your VC in the first place if it doesn't pass schema validation.
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Re:XML is better than YAML by emodendroket on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:01AM (#37607688)
Except you were just talking about "merge conflicts..." two valid versions of the configuration don't necessarily stay valid when they get merged together.
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Re:XML is better than YAML by pjmlp on Friday September 22, 2023 @03:45AM (#37609130)
Because a savy developer will validate their schema when sorting out merge conflicts across the whole configuration, instead of commiting a badly merged file that will fail starting up the Kubernetes cluster in the sea of YAML files.
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