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Overheard: Dave Winer is the Microsoft of XML?



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Technology, XML
elliottback.jpg My point here is that OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) takes a very, very simply nested list definition and then adds random hacks that Dave Winer wanted to use in his applications without thinking of a generic way to define them so that other developers can do something with the format.

In other words, Dave Winer is the Microsoft of XML.

Elliot C. Back, The OPML Embroglio: What is OPML?

This is an old blog post and I’m late to the party, but it still made me laugh out loud. :-)

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