Re: [OAUTH-WG] [apps-discuss] Web Finger vs. Simple Web Discovery (SWD)

["Paul E. Jones" <[e-mail]>]

Michael,

>  From a programming standpoint, JSON is just easier to deal with. Consider
> these two links:
> 
> http://php.net/manual/en/book.json.php
> 
> http://php.net/manual/en/book.xml.php
> 
> and tell me which you'd rather deal with. It's not huge, but it's not
> nothing either.

To be fair, this works well partly because of the language.  Works even
better in JavaScript.  It would work less well in C.  Here's just one
example:
http://www.digip.org/jansson/doc/2.3/

JSON bits do not map perfectly to C.  I thought C++ might be simpler, but
the first library I grabbed had library documentation that was 224 pages
long (libjson).

When I process simple XML like that from WebFinger, I tend to use a parser
that just steps through each node in order.  I don't need to decode the
whole "document" in memory and reference pieces and parts of it: one pass
over it and I grab what I need.  It's very simple to process the XML output
from WebFinger that way.

Paul