Re: XML and JSON

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe

XML buys you a step in the right direction, all data, and the relationships
between data, must be described to be understood by the wider audience. If
JSON was universally adopted to achieve this then great, I thought that was
the original intent of XML. But as far as I can see people are using JSON
for their own ends (which isn't inherently wrong I must say).

One cannot complain about the absence of standards in others if they ignore
them themselves and one should strive to adopt standards (for all).

No argument intended, I didn't say XML was better and JSON has its uses.

Maurice




-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: 28 April 2008 21:30
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] XML and JSON

Maurice O'Prey wrote:
> I guess if we had a W3C standard for Client Code I wouldn't expect it to
> change from eight numeric, to ten alpha, or 20 unicode in less than 15
> minutes! (perhaps I'm missing something here)
>   
I'm losing the thread of this conversation, Maurice.  You say XML is 
better than JSON because of W3C standards, but you agree that there are 
no standards for business objects.  So what does XML buy you?  I don't 
mean to be argumentative, I'm just trying to understand your point.

Joe