There exists a peculiar amnesia in software engineering regarding XML. Mention it in most circles and you will receive knowing smiles, dismissive waves, the sort of patronizing acknowledgment reserved for technologies deemed passé. “Oh, XML,” they say, as if the very syllables carry the weight of obsolescence. “We use JSON now. Much cleaner.”
Yeah, I wish I had something like XPath as consistently (in terms of availability and syntax) for JSON.
Has no one here heard of
jq?You do? jsonAta and JSONPath both exist and are very good.