XML-Lib
An over-engineered XML workflow with guardrails and proofs
Details
- External ID
- 45847033
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- XML-Lib
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 7, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5687772925764192
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built XML-Lib, a deliberately over-engineered XML playground that tries to bundle the whole document flow into one repo.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and programming utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- xml workflow automation with guardrails
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a developer utility library and testbed for XML processing workflows, well within the capabilities of AI coding assistants.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
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