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> I can't help feeling like there is a lot of tool blaming happening when the wrong tools were used in the first place.

Well, let's be fair: it's a bit surprising that a series of clear, readable key/value pairs in that Wikipedia "MacOS" infobox table can't be delivered by their API as JSON key/value pairs.

Using their API I can generate a JSON that has a big blob sandwiched in there. With the xmlfm format[1] that same blob has some nice-looking "key = value" pairs, too. Funny enough, those pairs for some reason exclude the "latest release" key.

Anyway, is there any case where a <tr> containing two columns in the Wikipedia infobox table doesn't hold a key/value pair? That just seems like such a valuable source of data to make available in simple JSON format.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisio...




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