slcon 2016 02 sjegen xml damage control

XML is a horrendously abused file format that severely suffers from over-engineering. However, there is an arguably legitimate use case for a subset of it: Text markup. This talk gave reasons for that and showed how to deal with XML in these circumstances. The presenter, forced to work with XML every day, first gave an overview of different XML parsing strategies and presented a few decent libraries for this purpose. To allow comparison, he benchmarked the most sensible XML libraries and discussed alternative parsing approaches as well as their implementation.