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XML was and remains amazing - I write XSLT for bulk data transforms every now and then and it is super performant. Even querying JSON is fast via XPath - https:
by jarym 4y ago
XML was and remains amazing - I write XSLT for bulk data transforms every now and then and it is super performant. Even querying JSON is fast via XPath - https://www.defiantjs.com/ https://www.defiantjs.com/
It’s downfall was really how broad it ended up being with way too many ways to represent data structures - JSON was refreshing with it’s limited vocabulary.
- planede 4y agoWhat do you use to evaluate XSLT to perceive it as "super performant"? I had the misfortune to deal with XSLT and I failed to perceive it as fast. In fact we had a lot of performance issues with XSLT processing. I wouldn't describe XPath as fast either.
- jarym 4y agoThe last time I used XSLT was in a Microsoft SSIS package to decode XML payloads into database rows that could be merged into SQL server tables. Before I did this the previous engineer had written a bunch of stored procedures to do this that was both brittle and slow (processing time was 11 hours) but the SQL was fairly decent. Once I used XSLT to do this the task ran in under 90 minutes and it was far easier to maintain (new fields, changing columns, etc).
- yobbo 4y agoRather, it's your computer that is performant.