Hacker News with Generative AI: XML

XML: Twig – A Time-Tested Powerhouse for Processing XML (perladvent.org)
XML was the preferred communication language used by services in the early 2000s. During that time, governments were establishing their own e-government systems, while companies were developing their SOAP services. Then, BOOM! Services began to adopt JSON because it was a lightweight and efficient alternative to XML. However, even though JSON became the new standard, old services were still in use and being maintained.Rewriting a system from scratch is not easy, and it might not even be necessary.

XML, Programming Languages, Web Development, Legacy Systems

55 points by oalders 39 days ago | 8 comments

Fast Haskell: Competing with C at parsing XML (2017) (chrisdone.com)
In this post we’re going to look at parsing XML in Haskell, how it compares with an efficient C parser, and steps you can take in Haskell to build a fast library from the ground up. We’re going to get fairly detailed and get our hands dirty.

Programming Languages, Haskell, Performance, XML, C

5 points by hyperbrainer 100 days ago | 0 comments

Ruby-SAML pwned by XML signature wrapping attacks (ssoready.com)
CVE-2024-45409 was published on September 10, 2024. It’s yet another XML signature wrapping attack, this time affecting the main Ruby implementation of SAML. The vuln allows an attacker log in as any arbitrary user of the affected system.

Security, Ruby, SAML, XML

166 points by ucarion 121 days ago | 91 comments

Defusedxml – defusing XML bombs and other exploits (github.com/tiran)
"It's just XML, what could probably go wrong?"

Security, Programming, Software, XML

92 points by gudzpoz 128 days ago | 20 comments

XML Tokenizer that's 4x faster than stdlib's XML (github.com/muktihari)

XML, Performance, Programming, Libraries, Tools

10 points by todsacerdoti 203 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Gosax – A high-performance SAX XML parser for Go (github.com/orisano)