Re: [xml-dev] XML's greatest cultural advantage over JSON

[John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the reasons for the 'hackable xml' idea that eventually

prompted the MicroXML discussions was because of this.  If you
stripped away some of the complications, you could/should have much
more simplfied apis... the MicroXML push got quite far, but so far I
haven't seen any simplified apis.  I must admit I tried and failed to
come up with anything better that what's out there already... perhaps
it's just not possible in Java.

MicroLark is written in Java, and its tree API is much simpler than DOM.  Its push/pull API is somewhat simpler than SAX, but SAX is close to the bone anyway.

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