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The lost art of XML — mmagueta (marcosmagueta.com)

submitted 1 day ago by Kissaki@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why not? It works great in Python.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not on the human parser side.

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And no comments, unless you use a non-standard parser. But then you might as well use anorher format.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

{"comment": "Who says you can't do comments in JSON?"}

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Lol. That works, but its hacky.

The meaning of a "comment" is an integrated language feauture to write something that is not parsed by that language. This is just regular JSON.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

This only works if the software that consumes the JSON doesn’t validate it or ignores keys it doesn’t recognize (which is bad, IMHO).

[–] tyler@programming.dev -1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Now do a second comment.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

{"comment2": "I can do this all day."}

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

JSON is super easy to read and write though. Just needs a parser that allows comments...

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That’s JSON5 or JSONC

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Yes, which needs to be supported by your parser.