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Good point, but xml is "cumbersome" or hard and json is not (in the eyes of many). xml was widely hated before json become widely accepted while json is not as
by shaneofalltrad 11y ago
Good point, but xml is "cumbersome" or hard and json is not (in the eyes of many). xml was widely hated before json become widely accepted while json is not as widely hated.
- taeric 11y agoI definitely agree that that is the perception. So, apologies to all if my tone earlier implied any condescension. What intrigues me is why is it so. There is a great article in one of the Programming Pearls books (so, published earlier), that goes over how providing provenance in a data format is highly useful. Yet, by and large, you can not do this in JSON, because comments are disallowed.