Hacker News with Generative AI: XML

Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust (startifact.com)
For the last two years I've been working on a programming language implementation in Rust named Xee. Xee stands for "XML Execution Engine" and it supports modern versions of XPath and XSLT. Those are programming languages, and yes, that's XML stuff.

Programming Languages, Rust, XML

380 points by robin_reala 7 days ago | 232 comments

Reverse Engineering PowerPoint's XML to Build a Slide Generator (framer.website)
Making PowerPoint presentations is much harder than it seems. While there are several LLM-powered slide generators out there, none of them produce truly satisfying results.

Reverse Engineering, PowerPoint, Slide Generation, Programming, XML

7 points by antonoo 38 days ago | 1 comments

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 115 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 176 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 197 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 203 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 278 days ago | 1 comments

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