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Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by ebruchez on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:53PM (#25354764)
> XPath (which is procedural)

XPath is not procedural. It is entirely composed of expressions that compose and return results. The closest common language might be SQL.

Re:Show HN: This website is valid JSON by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @04:47AM (#25356922)
Fair ‘nuff. I consider it “more proceduralish” than XSLT. It’s really more like an FP language.