• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
    1·
    1 month ago

    I think we did a thread about XML before, but I have more questions. What exactly do you mean by “anything can be a tag”?

    It seems to me that this:

    <address>
    <street_address>21 2nd Street</street_address>
    <city>New York</city> 
    <state>NY</state>
    <postal_code>10021-3100</postal_code>
</address>

    Is pretty much the same as this:

      "address": {
    "street_address": "21 2nd Street",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "postal_code": "10021-3100"
  },

    If it branches really quickly the XML style is easier to mentally scope than brackets, though, I’ll give it that.

    • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 month ago

      Since XML can have attributes and children, it’s not as easy to convert to JSON.

      Your JSON example is more akin to:

      <address street_address="21 2nd Street" city="New York" ...></address>
      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        1·
        1 month ago

        Hmm, so in tree terms, each node has two distinct types of children, only one of which can have their own children. That sounds more ambiguity-introducing than helpful to me, but that’s just a matter of taste. Can you do lists in XML as well?