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j_baker on June 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is JSON so popular? Developers want out of the...

I don't disagree with this, but I think there's something wrong when need another markup language to deal with the first markup language.

SigmundA on June 23, 2011 [–]

XSLT is XML, that whats nice about it, you can reflect on it.

XML has no operators for manipulating or evaluating, it is a metalanguage. XSLT adds this on top of XML to process XML.

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