No REST for the wicked

Posted Aug 28, 2025 7:19 UTC (Thu) by tux3 (subscriber, #101245)
In reply to: XSLT is kinda of horrible by raven667
Parent article: The tangled web of XSLT browser support

There isn't exactly a bijection between XML and JSON, but I don't find that the way it's rendered makes that much of a difference on access to the raw data

I usually have little trouble getting raw data in the modern JSON/Javascript Zeitgeist. And it'd be writing very similar Python scrapping snippets in an XML/Javascript or XML/XSLT world

Either way if I'm going to be doing anything interesting with the data, it won't be by manually copying bits of data from my browser's debug view, I'll be calling some bespoke API. If anything, the olden XML APIs I'm forced to use sometimes have this distinctive flavor of over abstraction and unnecessary complexity.

Data's data. The presentation layer doesn't really change access, in my experience