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On 02/18/2017 06:33 PM, Ihe Onwuka wrote: > I found this quote in an article by Bruce Johnson > > The single biggest tradeoff and architecture question you need to > answer – do you want complexity in the data or in the usage. > > I agree with it. You do not get a free lunch by using a "simpler" > data format unless your domain of concern is relatively trivial. Actually I think your last sentence is even better. It phrases politely what many of us might say more forcefully among ourselves. > Which brings up a seldom mentioned point. JSON is a developer > centric format. Who other than a developer would want to encourage a > state of affairs that requires more and more functionality to > manifest as application code I think that's a little harsh — it reminds me of the old joke about COBOL being the language of choice among programmers wanting to enhance their long-term employment prospects. Which was funny in the late 1970s but has now become embarrassing. There are certainly developers mature enough to select a data format that is appropriate for the task, and who are well aware of the balance between complexity in the data format and complexity in the processing. > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@g...> wrote: > Well XML vs JSON is an issue is because the JSON community see their > ecosystem as replacing rather than co-existing alongside other > ecosystems (XML in particular). But the JSON community are programmers. XML _per se_ has nothing to do with programming. > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...> wrote: > > Here is kinda how I see it. How do others see it? > > * | Fields | Literature > ----------------------------------------------- > Ephemeral | ie messages: JSON | HTML > ----------------------------------------------- > Stored | ie records: XML+XSD | XML But I now frequently find Stored/Fields using JSON. > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@m...> wrote: > > Isn’t XML necessarily about data, i.e., data-focused, data-centric? Nope. Nothing whatever to do with it. XML is for text. Its use for data is a great convenience in some circumstances, but that's not what it was designed for. ///Peter
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