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		array_key_first 12 hours ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude XML is perfectly fine. What are these alternatives? YAML is just bad. JSON is harder to read for deeply nested structures. TOML and the like don't have enough features.

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RHSeeger 10 hours ago | [–]

XML is pretty fantastic for a lot of things that JSON is not up to the task for. And YAML ... has it's own, special issues.

sham1 12 hours ago | [–]

Maybe ASN.1? Although that has an official XML encoding so maybe not.

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