Kill the author
Claim temporary insanity.
I'm digging through a very nasty bit of XML used to basically set website preferences. There is a "parser" that just calls the dom parser and all the "parseXXX" methods actually just hunt through the dom for bits of info. The data is then copied into a much less compact format with lots of hardwired attributes (why not just use a friggin dictionary?).
The method toXML is well over 1000 lines and the xml itself was clearly written by an amateur with attributes vs elements being exchanged willy nilly.
The code in question was written by the "architect" of this mess. No wonder the title has gotten a bad name.
I'm sick of working with pikers.
