{"id":26,"date":"2003-03-18T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T16:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2003-03-18T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T16:59:46","slug":"xml-too-hard-for-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/xml-too-hard-for-programmers\/","title":{"rendered":"XML too hard for programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/200x\/2003\/03\/16\/XML-Prog\">interesting article<\/a> posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/03\/03\/18\/0712248.shtml?tid=95&#038;tid=156\">Slashdot<\/a> from the author of XML.  Having worked a fair bit with XML parsing, I would agree with a lot of his concerns.  Although I guess I can say my code is more &#8220;extensible&#8221; after having moved to XML as an input format, I sure had to write a lot more code, including introducing and fixing new bugs and writing lots of little workarounds for the Java-based parser I was using (<a href=\"http:\/\/xml.apache.org\/xerces-j\/\">Xerces<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article posted on Slashdot from the author of XML. Having worked a fair bit with XML parsing, I would agree with a lot of his concerns. Although I guess I can say my code is more &#8220;extensible&#8221; after having moved to XML as an input format, I sure had to write a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}