I remember the XML is everywhere phase. The community that hasn't retired or passed on has largely come off of that. You can return JSON natively from XSLT 3.0 now. I've been on both sides of the love/hate fence with XML, but these days when I have the need to work with it I leave the projects really satisfied.
The best part of the XML craze was the deprecation of proprietary binary file formats. I had to work with some software that was truly awful but since it saved it's data as XML,I could skip the software entirely and work directly with the data.
Re:JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
by ssdspoimdsjvv on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:25PM
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Nowadays you have the same type of tools, only for YAML. Not sure if that's so much better.
Which tools are you thinking of?
Re:JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
by ssdspoimdsjvv on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:13AM
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The Github actions editor for example.
Re:JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford
by datavirtue on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:31PM
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YAML can die in a fire
Same here. XML was going to save the world! Remember XML data islands with data embedded in page source and displayed via XSLT?
The craziest thing I had to build was a tool to manage the dozens to hundreds of XML configuration files that powered our product. The tool allowed editing and deploying the files, complete with validation and even input suggestion based on associated XSD for each XML file.