Re: XML and JSON

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alfredo Delgado wrote:
> I'm a big fan of JavaScript Object Notation. I treat JSON vs. XML as
> internal vs. external views of data. Unless I'm dealing with a product that
> already outputs XML (I'm lazy), I always choose JSON over XML for AJAX.
>
> I fall in the same numberless bucket of assuming it performs better with fat
> DTDs but I find it much more natural to write JS code that accesses a native
> data structure.
>
> Alfred
>   
The more I've been using JSON, the more I like it.  But I'm a 
self-taught programmer, not a computer scientist, so maybe I just lean 
more towards the simpler approaches.  I hated EJBs because they were so 
over-designed, and I feel the same way about XML and especially SOAP.  
Now, if you're in an environment where you need a very strict 
standardized interface between two entities that otherwise don't talk (a 
la EDI) then SOAP is probably a reasonable choice.  But if you're 
sending small amounts of program-level data (e.g. data structures) 
between two machines, then I think JSON is the easiest answer.

Joe