Radioactive Butthole

It burns when I poop

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  • That’s kind of my point though. For being made specifically for the purpose of being machine readable, its kind of a pain in the ass to work with.

    I want a command line utility where I can just

    xmlquery --query 'some/query' --file foo.xml --output foo-out.xml
    

    or in python

    
    import xml
    
    with open("foo.xml", "r") as file:
        data = xml.load(file.read())
    

    That’s the amount of effort I want to put into parsing a data storage format.



  • Meh. I just wish XML was easier to parse. I have to shuttle a lot of XML data back and forth. As far as I can tell, the only way to query the data is to download a whole engine to run a special query language, and that doesn’t really integrate into any of my workflows. JSON retains the hierarchy and is trivially parsed in almost any programming language. I bet a JSON file containing the exact same data would be much smaller also, since you don’t list each tag twice.