Post #3651753
2026-07-07 15:19 UTC
@MaddieM4@raphus.social @ramsey@phpc.social Any time XML has to be manually written, it's not a good time and makes you hate it. Configuration is a prime example.
For machine-to-machine data transfer, and being *read* by humans, it's pretty great! XML tooling these days makes it much easier to work with in code.
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@ramsey@phpc.social 2026-07-07 15:25
@mroach@ublog.mroach.com @MaddieM4@raphus.social One of the most interesting uses of XML I ever saw was the World of Warcraft website. All the content was strict XML (not XHTML), and you could point parsers at it and easily read/consume it for your own guild sites, etc. When a browser loaded the XML, it used the browser’s built-in XML transformation engine to do a transformation with the linked XSLT files. It was impressive. All user profiles and stats were delivered this way, so they had a built-in open API.