Tim Bray on Don’t Invent XML Languages

Tim Bray on Don’t Invent XML Languages:

Here’s a radical idea: don’t even think of making your own language until you’re sure that you can’t do the job using one of the Big Five: XHTML, DocBook, ODF, UBL, and Atom.

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