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by pavel_lishin 5479 days ago
> - Had attributes that contained entire encoded XML documents

I've got that beat. I've dealt with XML that was basically a wrapper for JSON, which contained - you know where this is going - an XML string.

It's retarded elephants all the way down.

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This is getting downright Yorkshiremenesque.
Had to look that one up before dispensing an upvote.
Notice the "encoded" - they were (if I recall correctly) base64 encoded XML documents...
Hm. I never heard of XJsonX, but it would be a trivial logical extension of JsonX (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/inde...)