yintercept's Journal: Errant Tags

XML has always made me feel sick to the stomache. It sits right there with the Windows Registry in garbage technology forced on the masses.

Anyway, I was looking around for an XML validators. Unlike simple delimited files or even CSV, you have to use a program to figure out if the XML is coded right.

Anyway, I am looking at the official XML.com list of validators. Not, surprisingly, the list is not informative. I broke out laughing. Each entry has errant <name> tag appended to it. The bastards who stuff this second rate technology down our gullets can't even program their own site.

Seeing errors on the pages coded by the XML gurus is not all that surprising. XML has never been about getting a job do. It has been about academicians and industry gurus hyping the new hype.

The site is not as pretty. I enjoy XML Sucks. They seem to have a better understanding of what XML really is.

Hey now

[Captain Splendid]

In all fairness to XML, it was developed that way whereas the windows registry is the purest definition of crufty: A well-meaning idea now sunk under its own weight after decades of using it as a crutch.