I recently had to work with XSLT (may it's inventor burn in hell for their crimes).
That's pretty much programming in XML. It's probably the worst possible thing.
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XSLT is fine
If you have a program generate it
Sadly, it was done manually. I had to migrate it to this brand new bleeding edge technology, Apache Velocity. That's not great either, but it's much less terrible than XSLT.
For that task I had to learn two templating languages at the same time to port it from one to the other. Wasn't an easy task.
Pff. I know someone who generated programs using XSLT.
Can't even imagine. I've got fed up by the short time I had to configure Maven in plain xml...
Is there another way?
Yes, there is: https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven
I am just not sure if that's much better. Maven is just a huge pain in the rear.
Bro the project I'm on uses XSLT and the first time I saw it I legitimately thought I was having a stroke because I could not accept that anybody would be stupid and/or masochistic enough to actually want something like that.
However, I've now made it my mission to master it because it makes me feel like a high-born wizard speaking of ancient secrets in a tower high above humanity
I totally know that feeling :)
Well, in the 90s, XML was the future. Luckily, not a lot of this future remains.
Just imagine what HTML would be like if JSON had been available back then.
This is not HTML. It isn't even XML. It's not as bad as designers putting "code" into ads, but it's close.
Also, ever heard of XSLT?
I mean it's valid XML
It's just not useful
It isn't valid XML. No root node.
We may just not see it but fair point
The editor would need to start counting lines at zero.
The line numbers show us that we're seeing the whole file.
Oh ur right
Ew I didn't notice
That's awful
They only (probably) show us that we are seeing the begining of the file. Also relative line numbing is a thing in vim for example.
Could it be an xml entity (or whatever it’s called) that you reference from another xml file? Do those require root nodes?
This reminds me of Apple plist files, which appear to have been invented by someone that doesn't know how XML works.
Which is true for the majority of all XML files I've ever come across in the wild.
I think XML only makes sense if your data is heavily tree-like
In that case, why not use JSON?
JSON spreads out tree nodes vertically (with all the attributes), whereas in XML it's usually one node per line, ie. more compact I suppose. This is just my very niche opinion though
because you have a thing against solutions that are both beter and easier
What even are those?
No.
You should check out this new project, supposed to be twice as fast as HTML. It's called XHTML.
I thought that was the HTML used by Twitter.
Which of these wonderful languages is this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category%3aXML-based_programming_languages
Is it just me, or does the append statement not indicate where you are appending the "number" element to?
I will never understand how XML came into being when lisp already existed.
I don't either)))))))))
(reminds (it (of (story me))))
Would you really rather see <\Foo> than )?
There's a reason why most popular languages use } rather than end if or fi. The added verbosity doesn't actually help people read your code more than e.g. indentation or editors with paren matching or rainbow parens.
Meanwhile in APL, you just 20 50 60 90, 10
Who ever designed this deserves to be killed.
What color theme is that?
Looks like Vampire.
someone should make lisp but with html syntax