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(After several hours of debugging a returned "mal formed xml" error)

Me: We found out your api does accept our XML only if its elements are in certain order.

They: Oh! yes. :)

Me: ... and since XML should not depend on order, maybe you should fix that. Or at least alert about it in docs.

They: Yes, maybe we should. :)

Me: ... OK

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  • 2
    I like to think they tried for weeks to fix it but couldn't and then just gave up and now they stopped trying
  • 1
    "Noted on this."
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    @xaero that or some serialized DTO. What sounds like what happened in OP's post is that they rolled their own XML deserializer and fucked it up somehow.
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