Tim Bray <> 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.
