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I agree with Michael's assertion and would add that sometimes subtleties (like the truth) gets lost in the headlong rush forward. Part of the problem is using opaque, non specific terms (like 'fat') to describe something ... 'fat' really could mean anything or nothing in terms of computing. and this is where I bring out David Lee's excellent balisage paper What is clear is that there is a cost to modelling something as a fully fledged document versus data and when confronted with a choice, developers choosing json believe they are mitigating their risk (esp. true if your toolchain and execution environment of choice marshals json objects around). What is interesting to watch is the rarer occasion when someone has chosen json to represent document data ... things can get complicated quickly indeed. Even then the cost of transforming to higher fidelity format may not be as cost effective as everyone thinks. What is fun to watch is the recent upsurge in the use of Web components; watching developers have fun again with markup is great... which is more to say about the 'semantics' of using markup then anything. I think the performance argument has always been a red herring ... important for some, but not very relevant for most. Jim Fuller On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:34 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
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