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I don't understand either, and would benefit from a clear statement. Is there a universally agreed upon better way? Are those criticizing it presuming the par

by nkurz 12y ago

I don't understand either, and would benefit from a clear statement. Is there a universally agreed upon better way? Are those criticizing it presuming the particular use case of schema-less data deserialization and saying that it doesn't fully specify the object?

throwawaymsft 12y ago
In JSON the server would have returned account as an array with 2 elements. In XML you are left to figure that out for yourself. It's hardly clear that there could be several accounts but never several ids. (Yes, you can wrap it with an <accounts> node and make your data extremely verbose.) What about attributes? Should we ever expect them on the user? What if there's an attribute id as well, is it the same? (Oh, just download a schema to tell you what to expect! Argh...)