That's not incompetent -- that's Enterprise!

jrockway · on Sept 20, 2017

A text file is not Enterprise. Real Enterprises would have a binary format embedded inside XML.

  <?xml version="1.0">
  <enterprise>[the octets of an access database, interpreted as latin-1 and then encoded into utf-8]</enterprise>

int_19h · on Sept 20, 2017

You forgot the part where that XML is itself embedded inside another XML, and by "embedded" I mean "as a quoted text node". So:

   <enterprise>&lt;no-really-enterprise&gt; ...

pc86 · on Sept 20, 2017

> interpreted as latin-1 and then encoded into utf-8

It troubles me how true this is.