renzev@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 months agoAI's take on XMLlemmy.worldimagemessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down10
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minus-squareClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoSince 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>
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoHmm, 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?
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>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?