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		rwmj on Jan 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Yaml document from hell XPath is cool (and I still use it for work regularly). jq JSON expressions seem to be inspired by it as well. XSLT was horrible though. A programming language with XML syntax, no thanks!

int_19h on Jan 12, 2023 [–]

XQuery gives you 90% of XSLT with a syntax that is a superset of XPath. Verbose queries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLWOR) are especially nice and readable.

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