Comment by darby_nine

Comment by darby_nine 14 hours ago

2 replies

> have nothing to do with markup

Yes, it's a badly named language. It has nothing to do with markup. As always, intentions don't matter at all, and it's the best tool we have for certain types of structures.

dwaite 11 hours ago

It is a properly named language. Just a staggering majority of XML use is for a purpose it was not originally designed for. It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.

  • darby_nine 9 hours ago

    > It is meant to be a good tool for progressive enhancement text markup, such as stylizing hypertext or math equations.

    Well, at least hypertext. I've seen the disaster that is MathML.