Check out these XML quick references from Mulberry Technologies.
Via here, check out the Parsimonious XML Shorthand Language. Also see the community site.
PXSL ("pixel") is a convenient shorthand for writing markup-heavy XML documents. It provides XML authors and programmers with a simple, concise syntax that they can use to create XML documents. For more advanced users, PXSL offers customizable shortcuts and sophisticated refactoring tools like functional macros that can markedly reduce the size and complexity of markup-dense XML documents.
I can't believe I didn't link to this before. What's Wrong with XML APIs.
... Some APIs, such as DOM, are simply wildly broken and complex in ways that they don't need to be. Other APIs are too simple in that they don't completely and correctly model XML. These APIs try to pretend that XML is simpler than it actually is.
Any reasonable XML API will have some rough spots, because XML has rough spots. Some of those rough spots are design flaws in XML, but an API shouldn't be trying to fix that. A few APIs are both too simple and too complicated at the same time. The designers tried to throw in so many features that the API became excessively complex and hard to understand simply by its sheer size, while at the same time, they didn't actually get all aspects of XML correct.
Far and away the most common problem I've seen has been with namespaces. Namespaces are a real pain. They are difficult to understand. They are poorly designed. And a lot of the APIs that are out there either deliberately or accidentally try to pretend that namespaces are something other than what they actually are.
Via Artima.com
Along with the LGF Prayer, this bit from Mark Pilgrim is now one of the mottos of this site:
I must have missed the part where I was put under any sort of obligation towards you whatsoever.
motherfucker.
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