Lexware XML
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Hi,
I was looking into a config directory of a Lexware program. They use Quickbooks internally. In this config directory I found an xml file.
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It contains one line of gobbledygook but still is called fairuse.xml
So I guess not only MS ist not following standards...
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Not an enormous WTF I guess, but still pretty strange. Besides the lack of XML, what the fuck is up with the contents, which just seem like they repeat every line?
@hallo.amt said:
ist not following standards...
Bit of German creeping in?
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@burntfuse said:
@hallo.amt said:
ist not following standards...
Bit of German creeping in?
I guess so :-)
The contents get a little mor randomized later on but still no xml to be seen.
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You sure it isn't valid XML? Maybe it's possible due to a leak in the specification.
@hallo.amt said:
@burntfuse said:
@hallo.amt said:
ist not following standards...
Bit of German creeping in?
I guess so :-)
Happens to me all the time... but most of the times I'm quick enough to correct it =]
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@derula said:
You sure it isn't valid XML? Maybe it's possible due to a leak in the specification
Probably a CDATA block where the cdata tags themselves were eliminated for being redundant. i.e. the whole xml dtd is "stuff the old binary into a cdata tag, and boom, you're xml-ified!"