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by iforgot22 527 days ago
I don't remember anything about the XML ecosystem, but XML is already a totally different format from JSON without considering that.

  <body myattr="yeah">
    <thing>hi</thing>
    <thing thingattr="cool">hi2</thing>
    <otherkindathing>hi2</otherkindathing>
  </body>
can be thought of as nested objects, each having a typename, text content, and children. It doesn't translate nicely to JSON. Maybe:

  {"type": "body", "attrs": {"myattr": "yeah"},
   "children": [{"type": "thing", "content": "hi"}, ...]}