<![CDATA[xml stands for excellent markup language]]>xml stands for excellent markup language

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/70392aa5-e6c6-4db6-a8b3-61043d18b99c/xml-stands-for-excellent-markup-languageRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 02:43:05 GMTWed, 06 May 2026 05:34:53 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:30:07 GMT]]>@thehole no no, now it stands for "excellent, my love"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526219777900939https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526219777900939Wed, 06 May 2026 06:30:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:32 GMT]]>@photex @aeva for the record yaml is no better (it's over-engineered).

i can really only stand s-expressions these days.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526217436744425https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526217436744425Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:24:50 GMT]]>@aeva
oh no, I always thought it stood for "excellent, my love".
Now I understand why I was always given weird looks, when I told that to my love when something good happened!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dasforum.org/users/thehole/statuses/116526198952806620https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dasforum.org/users/thehole/statuses/116526198952806620Wed, 06 May 2026 06:24:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:20:16 GMT]]>@lritter @aeva I would never deny your trauma or right to heal in your own time. Peace be with you and may you never be forced to write software for the enterprise again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/photex/statuses/116526180992120381https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/photex/statuses/116526180992120381Wed, 06 May 2026 06:20:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:18:20 GMT]]>@photex @aeva i wrote enough XSLT in my life to claim the right to reject xml passionately. it was a nullbrained idea

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526173417402187https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526173417402187Wed, 06 May 2026 06:18:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:09:27 GMT]]>@lritter @aeva *gasp* that’s slander. XML got a bad rap because of abuse by the Java community. XML is the one true markup.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/photex/statuses/116526138511290908https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://icosahedron.website/users/photex/statuses/116526138511290908Wed, 06 May 2026 06:09:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:07:37 GMT]]>@aeva https://git.sr.ht/~duangle/sxpp/tree/master/item/doc/syntax.md

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526131296220647https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526131296220647Wed, 06 May 2026 06:07:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:06:31 GMT]]>@lritter ... what does the tld for Sint Maarten have anything to do with this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526126944915167https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526126944915167Wed, 06 May 2026 06:06:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:06:17 GMT]]>@unlofl @aeva also XHTML2 has some glorious features.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sociale.network/users/oblomov/statuses/116526126018707417https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sociale.network/users/oblomov/statuses/116526126018707417Wed, 06 May 2026 06:06:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:05:11 GMT]]>@aeva no! only sx is good

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526121683939572https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526121683939572Wed, 06 May 2026 06:05:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:04:28 GMT]]>@lritter xml is for lovers

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526118923435978https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526118923435978Wed, 06 May 2026 06:04:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 06:04:16 GMT]]>@lritter no. yaml is for startups who made technlology decisions based on passing fads in the 2010s and will only be free from their enormous pile of technical debt when they fail to IPO and the investors send them to a farm up state

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526118136842349https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526118136842349Wed, 06 May 2026 06:04:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:57:11 GMT]]>@lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORWAY

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXXS5S4YVYAKKRZPWMSAJVGhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXXS5S4YVYAKKRZPWMSAJVGWed, 06 May 2026 05:57:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:55:54 GMT]]>@aeva xml is for people born in 60s/70s. if you're born in 80s/90s, it's yaml for you.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526085195079836https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/lritter/statuses/116526085195079836Wed, 06 May 2026 05:55:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:51:20 GMT]]>@aeva It really is! Its greatest downfall was that people wanted it to be a serialization format, didn't understand the difference, and made giant messes.

I still wish XHTML was a thing, because people still think that what counts as "valid HTML" is well defined but it absolutely isn't

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/unlofl/statuses/116526067232195592https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/unlofl/statuses/116526067232195592Wed, 06 May 2026 05:51:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:48:36 GMT]]>@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place Of course, we were never going to do it properly. The very first paid dev work I did was integration software between a UK fire and rescue service and a brand new reporting service set up by the national government for collecting stats.

During the launch, the project lead on the government side pulled me aside to thank me for writing the only implementation out of over fifty that sent xml that validated. Several of the other implementations were written by large consulting firms at orders of magnitude greater cost.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXX9EWKTQJ5STWDQKC4YE1Bhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXX9EWKTQJ5STWDQKC4YE1BWed, 06 May 2026 05:48:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:47:07 GMT]]>@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place extinct markup language

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sk.girlthi.ng/notes/alx78wzcjhkn001thttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sk.girlthi.ng/notes/alx78wzcjhkn001tWed, 06 May 2026 05:47:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:44:37 GMT]]>@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm going to say it: if as an industry we'd done SOAP properly and built the tooling to support it in more languages, it would have been awesome. XSD is so much better than json schema for specifying a domain.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXX26BF5A5DJ54R2ZS27BSNhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects/01KQXX26BF5A5DJ54R2ZS27BSNWed, 06 May 2026 05:44:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:42:25 GMT]]>@aeva excellent to be read as an adjective that means "with qualities attributable to Microsoft Excel"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/celestia/statuses/116526032188842229https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/celestia/statuses/116526032188842229Wed, 06 May 2026 05:42:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:37:25 GMT]]>@pupxel i am always serious

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526012553452218https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/aeva/statuses/116526012553452218Wed, 06 May 2026 05:37:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:36:28 GMT]]>@aeva Bill and Ted’s XML Adventure

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/jalefkowit/statuses/116526008820135702https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://vmst.io/users/jalefkowit/statuses/116526008820135702Wed, 06 May 2026 05:36:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:36:15 GMT]]>@aeva 🀣 πŸ˜‚ 😐 oh you're serious

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/pupxel/statuses/116526007939152709https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.gamedev.place/users/pupxel/statuses/116526007939152709Wed, 06 May 2026 05:36:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to xml stands for excellent markup language on Wed, 06 May 2026 05:35:45 GMT]]>@aeva xml stands for xuck my life

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://critter.cafe/users/swiftyshq/statuses/116526005945713936https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://critter.cafe/users/swiftyshq/statuses/116526005945713936Wed, 06 May 2026 05:35:45 GMT