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> From: petexmldev@c... > To: len.bullard@u...; simonstl@s...; xml-dev@l... > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:31:59 +0000 > Subject: Re: ten years later, time to repeat it? > > I don't have the breadth of experience that many on this list have, but to > me mixed content seems pretty important to a document oriented view. In > that scenario, in a world where few things are ever perfect, XML seems about > as good as you can get (entities, namespaces and other things that people > grumble about aside). > > This provision for document features does compromise XML for purely > data-applications though, where JSON seems to be better. > > My view is that the world could do with 2 data formats, something XML-like > primarily for documents and something JSON-like for pure data. In this > view, tools like XSLT would be able to consume both formats (possibly using > some form of auto-detection and using some form of XML infoset common > intermediate form) and maybe even be able to output both formats (via some > kind of switch). > > That said, JSON seems to be contaminated with JavaScript cruft. For > example, instead of: > > "foo": 123 > > you should be able to do: > > foo: 123 > You can use that in JSON if you prefer, the quotes are only needed for property names with spaces. Joe http://joe.fawcett.name
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