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Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-06 18:52:57
On 6/6/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> wrote:

At this point XML is not a bad choice for data encoding. I would like to see 
the baroque SGML
legacy abandonded (in particular eliminate DTDs entirely). XML is not a perfect 
choice but is is
not a bad one and done right can be efficient.

JSON <http://www.json.org> seems like a better fit for the use cases
discussed here. You get better data types, retain convenient ASCII
notation for unicode characters, and lose lots of XML baggage.

draft-crockford-jsonorg-json-04.txt is in the RFC queue, headed for
informational status.

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Robert Sayre

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