Comment by benihana

>XML-hating JSON community

What are you even talking about? It seems like you think that XML and JSON are two mutually exclusive technologies and that if one is bad, the other is good. Or that if one is used, the other can't be? I don't understand why you even started talking about JSON; the article was about why XML and XSLT suck, not why JSON is superior to them.

I'm not really sure what point you're making. JSON is meant to make passing data in JavaScript easier. It's a necessary tool for interactive, JavaScript-heavy web frontends. I'm not sure why there's so much condescension in your post for JSON and its tooling. I'm just a bit confused; it comes off like you have a personal stake in XML and you find any mention of JSON, even obliquely, as offensive.

There's no reason that XML and JSON can't both be tools we use when the situation calls for it. This kind of dogmatic defense or condemnation of technologies offhand doesn't really do the HN community or the programmers at large any good.