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RE: JSON DDL suggestions?

• From: "Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>
• To: "'Rhodri James'" <rhodri@kynesim.co.uk>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 12:53:39 -0500

Well, flames do imply passion, which might suggest knowledge and/or
experience....

And absolutely, Words as well. The DDL is a data structure and variable
enforcer only.

The other replies have been useful, but I have no reply, and no strong
answer, yet. Keep those replies coming.

Thanks

tc

-----Original Message-----
From: Rhodri James [mailto:rhodri@kynesim.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 11:16 AM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re:  JSON DDL suggestions?

On 28/11/2018 15:42, Toby Considine wrote:
> But this project demands JSON, and the community around the project 
> demands JSON. This list has had frequent discussions of XML vs JSON, 
> some technical, some tending toward flame, so I am bringing this question
here.

You brought it here because of our tendency to flame? :-)

> What do you see as the most accepted JSON DDL format?

Words.

I'm serious.  I've seen plenty of schemas and DDLs for all sorts of things
in all sorts of data languages, and the main thing they have in common is
that they are unreadable to mortal man or woman.  This is no help whatsoever
to anyone coding to handle the resulting data; you may be able to generate
something to parse your data automatically, but you will have no idea what
to do with it when you get it.  You have no understanding of the semantics
or protocols associated with the data from a DDL.  You need a full spec, of
which a DDL may be a part but cannot be all.

--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd

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  • JSON DDL suggestions?
    • From: "Toby Considine" <Toby.Considine@gmail.com>
  • Re: JSON DDL suggestions?
    • From: Rhodri James <rhodri@kynesim.co.uk>