XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers

orangerobot writes "Tim Bray, one of the co-authors of the original XML 1.0 specification has a new entry on his website explaining why he's been feeling unsatisified lately with XML and says his last experience writing code for handling XML was 'irritating, time-consuming, and error-prone.' XML has always a divided response among the technical community. The anti-XML community has several sites stating their positions."

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[mystery_boy_x]

XML was never intended to be a replacement for HTML or anything else.

XML is fundamentally very simple and easy to understand. It is only DOM and other such atrocities that make it hideous. DOM is a prime example of how to make a technology designed for simplicity and flexibility and turn it into a hideous morass.