Re: [xml-dev] Stick with XML ... JSON is a minefield of security risks and ambiguities

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John Cowan <>
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Ghislain Fourny <>
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2016-11-02T17:18:06Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Stick with XML ... JSON is a minefield of security risks and ambiguities

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Ghislain Fourny <[email protected]> wrote:

Both XML and JSON are limited to the memory and processing capabilities of the hardware (memory, CPU) the parser is running on.

As indeed is everything else.  The grammar of C allows any number of
local variables to be declared in a procedure, and there is not any statement
allowing an implementation to limit this, but try getting a procedure with
18446744073709551616 local variables to compile.
 
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