• NekuSoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de
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    On one hand I agree, on the other hand I just know that some people would immediately abuse it and put relevant data into comments.

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        I have actually seen it in an XML file in the wild. Never quite understood why they did it. Anything they encoded into there, they could have just added a node for.
        But it was an XML format that was widely used in a big company, so presumably somewhere someone wrote a shitty XML parser that can’t deal with additional nodes. Or they were just scared of touching the existing structure, I don’t know.

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        That’s assuming people actually use a parser and don’t build their own “parser” to read values manually.

        And before anyone asks: Yes, I’ve known people who did exactly that and to this day I’m still traumatized by that discovery.

        But yes, comments would’ve been nice.