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Re:A brief XML rant by masklinn on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:37AM (#5318088)
> Am i missing something? Or is that just mindless hyperbole?

Note that the document uses namespaces but does not declare them. In Python, both ElementTree and LXML will blow up parsing when they encounter the first undeclared prefix (dc, from dc:creator)

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Re:A brief XML rant by gizzlon on Monday March 04, 2013 @08:43AM (#5318114)
Ah, you're right, I did miss something =)

Still nothing to be "shocked" about though ..

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Re:A brief XML rant by masklinn on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:00AM (#5318183)
TFA wasn't "shocked" (I suspect he was being slightly hyperbolic) at the sole invalidity-through-broken-namespacing, broken templating also had a hand in it: simply exporting a post and proof-reading the output is sufficient to catch the latter.

Then again, you just have to put the output through any XML parser (it's not hard to find) to realize the document is completely broken, but...

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