XML on the Web Has Failed (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

Mark Pilgrim explores the problems with XML on the web. "The other apparent success of XML is the rise of syndicated feeds, in a range of XML vocabularies like CDF, RSS, and now Atom. There are feed directories; there are feed search engines; there are feed validators. Every major blogging tool -- from freeware like Blogger to commercial software like Movable Type to open source software like WordPress -- every tool publishes at least one of these XML formats. Syndicated feeds are wildly popular, but they're not a success for XML. XML on the Web has failed: miserably, utterly, and completely."

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