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xpath sure is a lot more convenient for parsing data out of xml formats than the DOM interface

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@alyssa yeah it turns out those old XML technologies that browsers stopped caring about because it wasn't the DOM and HTML were actually good

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@Lady yeah. i'm not really surprised by that, more just by how unwieldy the DOM is. kinda hoped that was just a javascript problem

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@alyssa it's gotten better and they've been trying hard to develop out CSS selectors to give .querySelector() more power but it can still be quite cumbersome yeah

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