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>But, but, XML is gross! RSS is dead! 2007!

Favourite chapter. Never been fan of bashing xml in favor of json, both have their own advantages and xml gets the job done here. Wouldn't care if it was json.

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XML is not just a transport encoding like JSON. Apples to oranges. They are not comparable. It’s like comparing HTML or CSS with JSON. What’s he equivalent of XPath in JSON? There isn’t! They aren’t remotely solutions to the same thing.

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So what if XML is gross? Feed generators generate it. Feed readers consume it. Computer machine language is gross too. But only some of us need to look at it, while we can all use it.

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