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darganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I like xml, but it isn’t the easiest to read.

I hate yaml with a burning passion. At least with JSON you can compress it all down.

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schaeferpp@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
We seem to have something in common: there is a serialisation form, we strongly dislike. But what I cannot understand is: why the heck would anyone torture anyone else to read or even write XML? XML is the absolutely worst configuration language I can imagine. I mean: when is something an attribute, when a tag on its own? What is even a list? And don’t forget to include a full HTTP URI for the namespace, otherwise the tag is not defined.

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- darganon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mainly work with windows, and powershell works great with xml.
  
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emptyother@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m no fan of XML. It looks messy and the schema is difficult to write, imo. XML works best as a markup language.

YAML could have been okay if it were stricter with what they consider strings, and used tabs instead of spaces.

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- atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Using whitespace was a mistake. I know all the kids love it but it’s just wrong. I’ve never had as much difficulty explaining json or xml to users as I have yaml.
  
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