March 27, 2003

Tim Bray: "XML Doesn't Suck"

Following up on his "XML Is Too Hard For Programmers", Tim Bray comes back with "Why XML Doesn't Suck".

Recently in this space I complained that XML is too hard for programmers. That article got Slashdotted and was subsequently read by over thirty thousand people; I got a lot of feedback, quite a bit of it intelligent and thought-provoking. This note will argue that XML doesn't suck, and discuss some of the issues around the difficulties encountered by programmers.