23 October 2008
I vote for making XML abuse a crime. People treat it like it’s AI or something – use it and your program magically “understands” things.
The application I’m calling has an XML format; our company has an XML format – I get to convert back and forth between the two. Our format is infinitely recursive… The business rules engine is XML-based. There are XML config files, schemas, wsdl files, build scripts, repository meta-data, entity mapping specifications, XSLT…
Someone please bring an end to all this misery. Stop using a document format for everything that’s not a document!