• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:16:20 -0500

Robert Koberg wrote:
>>  > <pointedTroll>
>>  > Are you actually DEFENDING the Mixed Content model, Simon?
>>  > </pointedTroll>
>>
>> It's the only place where I see XML as having a significant advantage 
>> over JSON or YAML, so yes, I suppose that constitutes a defense.
> 
> That, and having a traversable hierarchy.

JSON does have a traversable hierarchy - it's just normally cast as 
objects rather than having a separate API for doing the traversal.

See, for one example:

http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/

If it wasn't for mixed content, I could probably live with JSON for the 
rest of my XML needs.

Thanks,
Simon St.Laurent
Retired XML troublemaker
http://simonstl.com/

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