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For those who don't know, Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec and has been a Developer Advocate at Google for a while.

Shame to see him go, I am joining DevRel at Google in the fall and I thought it was awesome to have someone as experience as Tim working kinda-sorta-near me. Hopefully he goes on to do something great.



> Tim Bray was one of the original inventors of the XML spec

That son of a bitch... ;)


Remove some DTDs. Then remove the completely-silly need to put the tag name in the closing tag, and hey, it's a nice format.

At least it has comments and is suitable as a config file format, unlike JSON.


He is also a serial founder, and, among other interesting things, wrote one of the very first web crawlers. See http://www.textuality.com/ for some of his fun stuff.


Implying XML is not great? ;)


Great men make great mistakes :-)


I guess I should have said more great things, as Tim has already accomplished a lot.


Ahhh, you can write webpages in it.


that is asking for

  XML - It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time




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