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Jun 15Classic WTF: XML Abuse
by in CodeSOD on 2015-07-09Is it still trendy to hate on XML? Of course it is! But this WTF would still be a WTF if it were built in JSON, because this is terrible.
This classic comes from 2008, but finding WTFs in XML knows no decade. - Remy
"Where I work we keep a lot of data stored in XML files," Ben writes. "They're not your average XML files, though — they're special." His colleague invented the following technique (recommended for senior level XML programmers only).