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1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 07:45:47 EST Tomas SA2TMS
   There's nothing wrong with XML. In fact JSON folks are busy reinventing everything XML does, poorly
   1. Ben Pfaff (blp@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 18:21:53 EST Ben Pfaff

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      @tomas @elizafox XML is big and complicated, JSON is simple. A production-quality JSON parser in C is <2000 lines. Sometimes this matters.
      1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 05:01:03 EST Tomas SA2TMS

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         Sure. Not that libexpat is particularly large at ~18 kloc. libxerces-c on the other hand..
      2. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 11:20:10 EST MMN-o ✅⃠

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         @blp Then again, the JSON feature list is this long: |--| and XML's is: |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| (not to scale)
         1. Ben Pfaff (blp@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Feb-2018 13:15:59 EST Ben Pfaff

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            @mmn Absolutely. If you don't need the features of XML, JSON is a reasonable choice. If you do need XML, you know where to get it ;-)
         2. tuttle (tuttle@somsants.net)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2018 05:01:56 EST tuttle

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            @tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se Everyone was talking about this new fandangled API technology. When I got round to looking at it.. "ah, it's xmp-rpc"
            1. Tomas SA2TMS (tomas@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2018 05:53:51 EST Tomas SA2TMS

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               @tuttle One always finds one's burden again. But the webdevs teaches us the higher fidelity that negates standards and reinvents RPC. They too conclude that all is well. This fediverse henceforth without a master seems to them neither sterile nor futile. Each Atom process on their computers, each line of redundant work written on those star-filled nights, in themselves, forms a world. The struggle itself toward reimplementation is enough to fill their hearts. One must imagine webdevs happy.
   2. danielside (danielside@gs.dnlsd.nom.es)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2018 13:48:31 EST danielside

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      xml and xsl are among the greatest inventions