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>> You only need one parser, and there are automated tools to check for
>> correct structuring.
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> Still... you'd think that if that were the goal, they could design it so
> that it DOESN'T exponentially increase your file size.
Oh come now, it only induces a *linear* size increase. And any
half-decent compression algorithm can elide that. ;-)
In simple terms, redundancy = it's easier to detect when it's broken.
XML does however have a small zoo of other problems. You know, I lot of
people think that "XML" just means "I make up some tag names" and that's
all there is to it. It's actually way more complicated than most people
realise. I *still* can't get it to work right... :-S
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