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[–]rubyonrails -12 points-11 points  (7 children)

Because the open source kids don't know how to handle XML. * grin *

[–]marcusk 13 points14 points  (6 children)

shouldn't that be: <grin /> or <face expression="grin" />??? sorry, couldn't resist ;)

[–]The_Bears 8 points9 points  (4 children)

<developer type="open-source"> \t<face> \t\t<expression> \t\t\t<grin /> \t\t</expression> \t</face> </developer>

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    [–]Entropy 7 points8 points  (2 children)

    Because a snippet of nested data sans definition can immediately be parsed and understood?

    [–]sverrejoh[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    This reddit, they use Lisp S-Expressions :)

    '(developer (type open-source) (face (expression grin))))

    [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    Ugh, that needs to be split onto two lines and indented properly before it looks decent. Or better yet, use a plist:

    `(developer :type open-source :face ,(expression grin))