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minus-squaresik0fewllinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·2 months agoWe were using XML for that before JSON.
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down6·2 months agoYes and it is a good thing we don’t anymore.
minus-squaresik0fewllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·2 months agoWhy? JSON hasn’t given us anything XML hasn’t, except maybe a bit of terseness. I do agree SOAP is a bit over engineered, though, but that’s not the fault of XML.
minus-squareexu@feditown.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoXML is much more annoying to read/write by hand
minus-square0xD@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoAs a pentester, if I see XML in HTTP I start crying.
minus-squarexigoi@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoA big advantage of JSON over YAML is that it can be parsed directly into common data structures (arrays, objects, tables) in a natural way.
We were using XML for that before JSON.
Yes and it is a good thing we don’t anymore.
Why? JSON hasn’t given us anything XML hasn’t, except maybe a bit of terseness.
I do agree SOAP is a bit over engineered, though, but that’s not the fault of XML.
XML is much more annoying to read/write by hand
As a pentester, if I see XML in HTTP I start crying.
A big advantage of JSON over YAML is that it can be parsed directly into common data structures (arrays, objects, tables) in a natural way.