I See Dead Code

On my last day on the old project, I just ran some statistics over the code. Over nine months, I’ve touched 494 of 513 source files in our project at least once, which is 96.3%. All the automatic refactorings in Eclipse have made this all too easy.

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Dear Wordpress Developers, I won’t even explain to you what is wrong with this statement above.
CDATA and Doubly-Escaped Entities
So let’s see. In theory, the XML snippets
<bla><![CDATA[&auml;]]></bla>
and
<bla>&amp;auml;</bla>
represent the same DOM tree.
In order to see that this is actually true, one can use the Swiss Army Knife of XML handling, xmllint, to convert an XML file to [...]

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