Chris Angelico <[email protected]>:
> XML is thus poorly suited to *most* forms of data,
Correct.
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <spam>
> <asdf>aa</asdf>
> <qwer>qq</qwer>
> <qwer>qw</qwer>
> <qwer>qe</qwer>
> <asdf>as</asdf>
> </spam>
>
> What does this represent? A generic XML parser has to cope with it. I
> gave this to a few XML-to-JSON converters, and they all interpreted it
> as some variant of {"asdf":["aa","as"],"qwer":["qq","qw","qe"]}
It's worse than that. For a *generic* parser, it should be something
like:
{
"spam" : [
" \n",
{ "asdf" : [ "aa" ] },
" \n",
{ "qwer" : [ "qq" ] },
" \n",
{ "qwer" : [ "qw" ] },
" \n",
{ "qwer" : [ "qe" ] },
" \n",
{ "asdf" : [ "as" ] },
"\n"
]
}
> XML just needs to die.
Thankfully, that seems to be happening.
Marko
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