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by hombre_fatal 2246 days ago
This doesn't make any sense to me. Whether you have to use xmlParse() or jsonParse() is completely inconsequential. It's like writing laws that require languages to have a built-in XML parser. Or a fetchAndParseXml() function.

If these kinds of laws infected tech, we'd still be maintaining government mandated SOAP/WSDL services and other overly complicated tech that someone somewhere thought was the global maximum.