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		LameRubberDucky on Oct 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XML is almost always misused For those wondering what you do with XML as a document markup language, see the XML document that is the specification for XML. I had to look at the page source to determine it really is an XML document. Looks like an HTML document. https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/REC-xml-20081126.xml

spiralx on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

I've got a stylesheet I wrote that turns HTML or XHTML into a fully indented and highlighted representation of itself which I was quite proud of :) I used to spend a lot of time writing XSLT and XQuery lol.

yellowapple on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

Jesus. That's slick. Almost makes me appreciate all the bells and whistles of XML.

Almost.

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