Post #3241205

2023-03-21 14:41 UTC

@ndw@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host of course that's not quite true, RSS isn't just like all the others. ;-) i love the fact that it was such a roaring success yet so thoroughly dissed by the XML establishment. i love it because i think the programming elite is a totally obsolete idea, it was even when i was a young lad (in the 70s), but even more so now. the pitch on XML to devs like myself was "now you can make your own formats!" except when we did, they tried to reinvent.

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@davew@mastodon.social 2023-03-21 14:43

@ndw@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host if i were making formats, i'd consider how they were working among devs who were using the format, and in that case there's no question that having a standardized way to extend formats made my life much easier. i could just say in the spec -- and i did -- use namespaces. that was all i had to say. imagine if there was nothing in XML about extending XML? i have a pretty good idea what the chaos would've looked like, we encountered it in other areas.

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@ndw@mastodon.social 2023-03-21 15:50

@davew@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host To be excruciatingly clear, I wasn't dissing RSS. Apologies that it wasn't on the list. It was 06:30 or something in the morning and I was extemporizing.

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@TimHare@hachyderm.io 2023-03-21 16:30

@davew@mastodon.social @ndw@mastodon.social @timbray@hachyderm.io @bosak@flx.masto.host I have only really done personal projects, but I like XML because of XSLT, which ultimately means if you don't like a format, don't re-invent it, use a transform to end up with what you want. You can with certain tricks, use XSLT to transform non-XML documents. That said, I am fine with RSS because it "just works"

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