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by crdoconnor 3327 days ago
JSON parsers have a much smaller 'feature surface' meaning that there are fewer nooks and crannies for bugs to live in.

One example of a bug that often festered in XML parsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs (there is no JSON equivalent of this)

The generalized theory, for those interested : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_least_power
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zokier 3327 days ago
While I'd agree that parsing JSON is much easier than XML, it is still not completely trivial as demonstrated by this article: http://seriot.ch/parsing_json.php
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kr0 3327 days ago
What from I grok the guy requesting JSON-LD wants this functionality
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