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The lost art of XML — mmagueta (marcosmagueta.com)
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There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. "Oh, XML," they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. "We use JSON now. Much cleaner."

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[–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

While I understand the critic about XPath and XSL, the fact that we have proper tools to query and tranform XML instead of the messy wat of getting specific information from JSON is also one of tge strong point of XML.

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