XML Considered Harmful

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2021-09-21, Pete Forman <petef4+usenet at gmail.com> wrote:
> CSV is quite good as a lowest common denominator exchange format. I say
> quite because I would characterize it by 8 attributes and you need to
> pick a dialect such as MS Excel which sets out what those are. XML and
> JSON are controlled much better. You can easily verify that you conform
> to those and guarantee that *any* conformant parser can read your
> content. XML is more powerful in that repect than JSON in that you can
> define and enforce schemas. In your case the fuel name, UOM, etc. can be
> validated with standard tools. In JSON all that checking is entirely
> handled by the consuming program(s).

That's not true. You can use "JSON Schema" to create a schema
for validating JSON files, and there appear to be at least four
implementations in Python.