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Re:JSON Feed by morgante on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @02:30PM (#14361343)
Most XML parsers I've used are leaky abstractions. Even once the document is parsed, actually accessing the data can require a lot more complexity than accessing parsed JSON data.
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Re:JSON Feed by weberc2 on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @04:39PM (#14362577)
IIRC, the popular C++ implementations were glorified tokenizers. It was up to you to figure out which tokens were data and how those tokens related to each other.
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Re:JSON Feed by icebraining on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:04AM (#14366009)
Ah, SAX. People built some true horrors with that API, just because it was "more performant" than DOM. Never mind that their hacked-together tree builders often leaked like sieves.
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