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Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes: > K. Ari Krupnikov wrote: > > > Data formats need to be documented, the documentation needs to be > > publicly available and correct. No matter how good or bad a format is, > > if the documentation you have doesn't match what you find in actual > > files, or if there are crucial features that are not publicly > > documented, the format is useless. > > Except for, they're usually not. Good docs are thin on the ground. > The virtue of the Web was that you could figure it out yourself anyhow > by doing a "view source". Except most of those who viewed source *didn't* figure it out, and that lead to tag soup. Ari.
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