Some data formats are easy for humans to read but difficult for computers to efficiently parse. Others, like packed binary data, are dead simple for computers to parse but borderline impossible for a human to read.

XML bucks this trend and bravely proves that data formats do not have to be one or the other by somehow managing to be bad at both.

I mean, it's not wrong...

Wow, that's a very passive aggressive reaction. I enjoyed a lot.

finally accurate ai

a wate of time

A word document is xml

I hate writing xml with a passion

It’s not a waste of time… it’s a waste of space. But it does allow you to “enforce” some schema. Which, very few people use that way and so, as a data store using JSON works better.

Or… we could go back to old school records where you store structs with certain defined lengths in a file.

You know what? XML isn’t looking so bad now.

If you want to break the AI ask instead what regex you should use to parse HTML.

wate

I'm starting to like this AI thing...

I'm sorry which LLM is this? What are its settings? How'd you get that out of it?

And how did it give sources?

XML is good for markup. The problem is that people too often confuse "markup" and "serialization".

BASED. What is the name of this AI? I want to use this.

RSS/ATOM has to be the best thing to come out of XML

Listen we all know deep down the solution is to try to parse it with regex

stuff like this is how reddit found out their users comments were being used 😂

It is very cool, specifically as a human readable mark down / data format.

The fact that you can make anything a tag and it's going to be valid and you can nest stuff, is amazing.

But with a niche use case.

Clearly the tags waste space if you're actually saving them all the time.

Good format to compress though...

AI is starting to get really smart