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		hgyjnbdet on May 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Use JSON Path XML is also used, literally, for office documents (Word, Excel, etc).

PurpleRamen on May 4, 2024 [–]

So are JSON and YAML. The point is whether you have a programmatic and structured handling of a document's content, or whether it's random, where every line and word can demand for a different parser.

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