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0 pointspreseinger3y ago0 comments

you can't ignore ux stuff like this in a protocol that's meant for general use

something like duplicating info in closing tags in XML (which applies to every element) isn't really comparable to stuff like having to escape certain characters in JSON strings (which applies only to the values use those things)

perfect is the enemy of the good, and the good is the metric

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hot_gril3y ago

Don't you also have to escape stuff in XML? Like &gt, which is even worse.

taeric3y ago

Yes, though many languages have lenient parsers. Most browser parsers, for example, will probably only be lenient if parsing "HTML."

    new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(new DOMParser().parseFromString("<a>hello < </a>", "text/html"))

The above in my console does as expected there. And again, entities are a very dangerous part of XML and friends.

You are correct that if you tell it that that is xml, the browser will throw it back at you. Just as the JSON parser will barf on JSON.parse("{'test':'value'}").

preseingerOP3y ago

per specifications, json parsing is not lenient, html parsing is lenient

taeric3y ago

Right, and amusingly, more than a few json parsers are very lenient in this. That or folks abandon ship fairly quickly and go for another spec that is far more friendly.

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goto113y ago

To be pedantic, html parsing is not lenient, it is unambiguously specified.

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hot_gril3y ago

Don't you also have to escape stuff in XML? Like &gt, which is even worse.

taeric3y ago

Yes, though many languages have lenient parsers. Most browser parsers, for example, will probably only be lenient if parsing "HTML."

    new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(new DOMParser().parseFromString("<a>hello < </a>", "text/html"))

The above in my console does as expected there. And again, entities are a very dangerous part of XML and friends.

You are correct that if you tell it that that is xml, the browser will throw it back at you. Just as the JSON parser will barf on JSON.parse("{'test':'value'}").

preseingerOP3y ago

per specifications, json parsing is not lenient, html parsing is lenient

taeric3y ago

Right, and amusingly, more than a few json parsers are very lenient in this. That or folks abandon ship fairly quickly and go for another spec that is far more friendly.

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goto113y ago

To be pedantic, html parsing is not lenient, it is unambiguously specified.

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