XML Feed Hell

[TSM]

Im dying from XML Hell... I hate this and im not anywhere near finished.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ABCD_mm="http://feed.example.com/2010/03/ABCD_mm" xmlns:ABCD_cm="http://feed.example.com/2010/03/ABCD_cm" xmlns:ABCD_nm="http://feed.example.com/2010/03/ABCD_nm" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xml:lang="en">
    <title type="text">ABCD Feed</title>
    <subtitle type="text">Entertainment News</subtitle>
    <link href="http://feed.ABCD.org/"/>
    <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
    <author>
        <name>ABCD Newsdesk</name>
        <email>newsdesk@example.com</email>
    </author>
    <ABCD_nm:NewsManagement type="feed">
            <ABCD_nm:feed_type>news</ABCD_nm:feed_type>
            <ABCD_nm:feed_id>1</ABCD_nm:feed_id>
            <ABCD_nm:feed_name>ENT</ABCD_nm:feed_name>
    </ABCD_nm:NewsManagement>
    <id>urn:ABCD-com:newsfeed</id>
    <entry>
        <title type="text">Article 1</title>
        <summary type="text">Some text.</summary>
        <content type="text">Some text.</content>
        <link href="http://example.org/2003/12/13/atom03"/>
        <id>urn:ABCD-com:newsfeed:1:200:500</id>
        <published>2010-03-08T05:31:40Z</published>
        <updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</updated>
        <category term="Film" />
        <ABCD_nm:NewsManagement type="feedarticle">
            <ABCD_nm:feed_type>news</ABCD_nm:feed_type>
            <ABCD_nm:feed_id>1</ABCD_nm:feed_id>
            <ABCD_nm:feedinstance_id>200</ABCD_nm:feedinstance_id>
            <ABCD_nm:feedarticle_id>500</ABCD_nm:feedarticle_id>
            <ABCD_nm:feedarticle_section id="1">Film</ABCD_nm:feedarticle_section>
            <ABCD_nm:article_id>232333</ABCD_nm:article_id>
            <ABCD_nm:published>2010-03-08T05:31:40Z</ABCD_nm:published>
            <ABCD_nm:updated>2003-12-13T18:30:02Z</ABCD_nm:updated>
            <ABCD_nm:publishing_status>Usable</ABCD_nm:publishing_status>
        </ABCD_nm:NewsManagement>
        <ABCD_cm:ContentMetadata type="newsarticle">
            <ABCD_cm:title>Title</ABCD_cm:title>
            <ABCD_cm:first_line>First Line</ABCD_cm:first_line>
            <ABCD_cm:body>Body</ABCD_cm:body>
            <ABCD_cm:slug>Body</ABCD_cm:slug>
            <ABCD_cm:tags>
                <ABCD_cm:tags term="Person" id="22">Tag 1</ABCD_cm:tags>
                <ABCD_cm:tags term="Place" id="33">Tag 2</ABCD_cm:tags>
            </ABCD_cm:tags>
            <ABCD_cm:categories>
                <ABCD_cm:category id="4">Cat 1</ABCD_cm:category>
                <ABCD_cm:category id="2">Cat 2</ABCD_cm:category>
            </ABCD_cm:categories>
        </ABCD_cm:ContentMetadata>
        <ABCD_mm:MediaMetadata>
            <ABCD_mm:media version="Small1" id="12345" type="image" mimetype="image/jpeg" filename="file://ABCD1234567.jpg">
                <ABCD_mm:width>1200</ABCD_mm:width>
                <ABCD_mm:height>800</ABCD_mm:height>
            </ABCD_mm:media>
        </ABCD_mm:MediaMetadata>
    </entry>
</feed>

XML is like violence, if it doesn't solve the problem, just use more.

[TSM]

Originally Posted by Wester

XML is like violence, if it doesn't solve the problem, just use more.

problem is that there are a million and one ways to do the same thing in XML, grrr choices, annoying

[timwilky]

XML was d̶e̶v̶e̶l̶o̶p̶e̶d̶ hacked by former cobol programmers. Nobody else would use 30 words where one will do. I hate it from a developers perspective. yet love it for data encapsulation.

[TSM]

Have you ever had to play with NITF and NewsML formats, ahhh such pain and useless repetition of tags.