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		voidfunc 2 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The lost art of XML OK, but XML is a pretty solid format for a lot of other stuff that doesn't necessarily need network transmission.

shadowgovt 1 day ago [–]

This is true, but if other formats work for those purposes and also network transmission, they'll start to edge out the alternative of supporting two different protocols in your stack.

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