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Re: XML's greatest cultural advantage over JSON

  • From: Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com>
  • To: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:10:05 +0100

Re:  XML's greatest cultural advantage over JSON
Is the major blocker something to do with developers
wanting everything to be free and take minimal effort
in areas of software technology, whereas with the more
expensive RDBMSs and app frameworks (expensive
for their tools support, etc at least) the will to invest time
and effort is already there sufficient for supporting XML?

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Stephen D Green


On 29 April 2013 14:02, Stephen D Green <stephengreenubl@gmail.com> wrote:
Just comparing the time it took for XML to be adequately
supported in RDBMSs and application frameworks like
.NET and Java and the time it has taken for it to be adequately
supported in Javascript (and browsers for that matter) and
you get the idea the latter have either been rather tardy or
have lacked strong user demand, or there has been some
other major blocker not suffered by RDBMSs and application
frameworks. It's probably too late to think that that will ever
be fixed. MicroXML doesn't seem to have made any impact
on the problem. Probably nothing will. (IMO of course)

----
Stephen D Green


On 29 April 2013 09:50, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
On 28.4.2013 14:22, Simon St.Laurent wrote:

> XML had a chance with an open-minded crowd of people eager to embrace
> it.  By and large, we utterly failed to convince them.  Once other
> options emerged, they ran there.

I think that story is different. Javascript in browser doesn't have
usable XML API (DOM is simply ... DOM), but evaluating JSON with eval()
at that time was very easy (do you still remember E4X?). Also given the
browser security model you are unable to fetch cross-site XML resources,
but you can do the same with JSON-P. So with JSON it was possible to
walk around limitations in browser, nothing more. With better XML API in
browser and more reasonable security model situation between JSON/XML in
Web front-end development could be very different.

                                Jirka


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