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ben7799 on Feb 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The XML spec is 25 years old today

Lots and lots of applications make the exact same mistakes with Json.

Read the entire document into memory and let Jackson parse it out into a heavyweight object graph. Blech.

zaphar on Feb 11, 2023 [–]

Well, yes. But the difference between a JSOn object graph and an XML Document Object Model is night and day in terms of size. Not even close to comparable.

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