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If you think XML is bad

Name: Anonymous 2007-10-30 8:36

Then consider this, as it could be a lot worse:

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Name: Anonymous 2007-11-01 11:57

>>45
I reckon it's more historical. Back in the days when data interchange needed to be between very different systems - some with non-ASCII character sets - it made sense to make things as plain text as possible. You can see that sort of thinking in old Internet protocols such as SMTP and HTTP.

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