-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 02:12:22PM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 06/04/18 09:33, deloptes wrote: > >Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>UUIC that's partly why it's finally losing popularity and being replaced > >>with json for that use. I'm not familiar enough with json to know if > >>it's really a good replacement, but it does look like an improvement. > >that is simply not true. JSON might be more simple, and might be a > >replacement to XML in some cases, but XML has the features of SGML and per > >definition > >XML is not a single Markup Language. It is a metalanguage to let users > >design their own markup language. > > Indeed. XML has W3C XML Schema, and stronger validation can be > specified with Schematron (an ISO standard). JSON Schema is only an > IETF draft. JSONP allows avoidance of JavaScript XMLHttpRequest > same-origin rules and has increased the popularity of JSON, but the > modern solution is CORS.
Well, I think here we're leaving the document/vs data thing: if you are already serializing whole objects (with methods), that's a whole other kettle of fish (with more interesting consequences: the Java community has lots of experience with that [1]) Cheers [1] https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/03/27/2041225/atlanta-hit-by-ransomware-attack-also-fell-victim-to-leaked-nsa-exploits - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlrHGwcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbeXQCfSNIO5s234lVFZHVy/+NFnGYR JBsAn3geK1MkkWpX3OxJOp7+Aixo+FFJ =2u7X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
