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0 pointsmarginalia_nu1y ago0 comments

Have you considered XML?

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MarkSweep1y ago· 1 in thread

Or heck, PLists. They have an XML representation that is fairly similar to what JSON can express.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_list

As someone who has tried to parse this crazypants as a side-effect of the old 1Password.opvault, please don't. The idea that one has to //key[text()=="firstname"]/following-sibling::string/text() because they're not nested they're siblings. Insanity

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