It depends on the API of the system. I’ve worked on middleware that would not be able to get an attribute, it lacked the capability. Other systems used JavaScript and it was much easier with JSON

See this link on stack exchange[1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17604071/parse-xml-using...

> //Gets Street name xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("street")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

I’d much prefer something like jsonObj.address[0].street;. Personally I like to work with objects over parsing documents trees.