AI's take on XML

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.

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a wate of time

finally accurate ai

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".

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

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

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

Is this a tactic used by skynet to lure all humans together and then....BANG!!!

Balisage Paper: Fat Markup: Trimming the Fat Markup Myth one calorie at a time

https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol10/html/Lee01/BalisageVol10-Lee01.html

XML is a fine format in comparison to JSON.

XML has its strengths as a markdown format. My own formatted text format ETML is based on XML, as I could recycle old HTML conventions (still has stylesheet as an option), and I can store multiple text blocks in an XML file. It's not something my main choice of human readable format SDL excels at, which itself has its own issues (I'm writing my own extensions/refinements for it by the name XDL, with hexadecimal numbers, ISO dates, etc.).

OH HEY EVERYONE, EVERYONE, THIS GUY LIKES JSON

Fuck you and your unstructured garbage.