Hi, everyone knows that XML has its defects but considering some of our discussions about suckless web ideas I think that XML + XSLT is quite a good solution - much better than plain HTML. Pages writen in XML has readable source and data can be accessed much more easily. In addition using of XML causes that we have API for each web page which is using it.
Other disadvantage of XML - the large size of files (in compression with JSON) also isn't a big problem becouse when we use some compression algorithms (gzip for example), xml will compress much better and it's size will be similar to its JSON equivalent. Another advantage of XML is its adaptation. We've already have MathML, SVG and many many others[1] all build on top of XML. Persons who would like to use web browser to read the page can still do it (using XLST) and the person who would like to get some information from the page can also do it in easy way. At the and I want to ask you a question. What do you think would be the best solution for bulding websites which would look similar to this what we have now(gopher is great but ...) and would have easily accessible data for persons who want to use it in thay own applications? BR, Szymon [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_markup_languages
