Interesting. I would disagree though about the 'always include imaginary attributes and imaginary children' as being "recommended" given how that quickly pollutes the collection and now converting to a JSON or YAML generates a huge ugly balloon of nonsense 100% of the time, which neither of the other format conversions would do until XML is brought into the mix. I wouldn't want to see one thousand empty _attr lines in my .yaml files just because the data arrived via XML.
Last edited by Raccoon; 10/08/19 11:07 PM.