On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:44:13PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote: > HTML started out as SGML, which is even less sane than XML.
It's a lot more sane than binary word / wordperfect documents and such. What do you suggest is better than HTML? troff? TeX? docbook? markdown? And what should replace HTTP? 9p? ftp? gopher? I like XML/XHTML as a document markup language, but not for exchanging data structures. For that, I reckon it's good to use TSV/CSV tables, or sets of key: value structs delimited by blank lines, e.g. Debian lists. There are all sorts of bogosities with HTTP and HTML, but it's possible to write nice simple clean well-formed HTML, and send nice simple clean HTTP requests, ignoring most of the suckful bits.
