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		kennethallen 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The lost art of XML The fundamental reason JSON won over XML is that JSON maps exactly to universal data structures (lists and string-keyed maps) and XML does not.

tilt_error 20 days ago [–]

This article/blog post [1] has been on HN several times before, but it is well worth a reminder.

[1] https://seriot.ch/software/parsing_json.html

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