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Is the real pro-XML argument, then, that it currently has support? As far as I know, there is nothing inherent to JSON to prevent anyone from writing a streami

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• masklinn 15y ago
  > Is the real pro-XML argument, then, that it currently has support? That's the only one I can find which would be relevant to milweed's assertion that: > Large data sets should be published in XML. Apart from the rarely used ability to mix data formats into a single semi-coherent document and some sort of backwards compatibility, I don't see much in the way of reason. > As far as I know, there is nothing inherent to JSON to prevent anyone from writing a streaming parser. Of course there is not, and there are several such parsers, hence my writing that they are not widespread. Were they impossible (or non-existent) or at the very least unknown to me I'd have written that they don't exist instead.