Sufficiently advanced XML is indistinguishable from satire

That's something I think clojure got right, .edn files make that shit much more readable

This isn’t even advanced but pretty normal XML.

I worry that those tag names are associated with a class name somewhere

crying in Roxen

xml is so crap in terms of file size too

like Jesus please stop

@lorentz I’m sure there’s a bean generic factory factory somewhere.

It's not even closing those innermost tags

I work with legacy software and they overengineered it a lot through the 15 years. I only have 1 and 2 letter tags in most xmls. I don't know what they do but it seems like I don't have to.

@RageExpress they use way too many and you use way too few :)

@RageExpress English words are on average 6 letters. Your tags are probably more specific than that, but if you were a brilliant architect, the XML files were important enough to build your entire nomenclature around them, and your domain lent itself to metaphors, your tag names should be 6 characters on average.

@lorentz yes. clarity is always more important than brevity