Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday March 28, 2025 @01:37PM
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JSON5 is a real sweet spot for me. Closing brackets, but I don't have to type every tag twice. Comments and trailing commas.
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Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by consteval on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:41PM
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I find for deeply hierarchical data that XML is much easier to read.
Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by emporas on Friday March 28, 2025 @10:39PM
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Emacs has pretty print JSON which makes it very easy to read. I don't find it possible, XML displayed for human consumption to be better than that.
Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by froh on Saturday March 29, 2025 @09:13AM
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interrsting. I find the signal/noise ratio of XML really bad.
what I really dread in XML though is that XML only has idref/id standardized, and no path references. so without tool support you can't navigate to a reference target.
which turns XML into the "binary" format for GUI tools.
Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by consteval on Saturday March 29, 2025 @02:21PM
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> so without tool support you can't navigate to a reference target
Maybe, but XML tools are also just superior to JSON counterparts. XPath is fantastic, and so is XSD and XSLT. I also quite like the integration with .NET.
My general experience with JSON as a configuration language has been sad. It's a step back from XML in a lot of ways.
Re:Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
by froh on Saturday March 29, 2025 @03:19PM
(#43517834)
yes, XML is very mature, and fun if you have access to advanced tools.
however most oss builds on libxml which is stuck in xslt 1 and xpath 2 iirc...
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