On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 05:16 -0700, John Smith wrote: > JSON offers most of the advantages of XML, without a lot of the drawbacks, > XML is often referred to as a horse designed by a committee and they ended up > with a camel :) >
The way I see it - XML is good for marking up text. JSON is good for describing structured data. If HTML was based on JSON, it would be somewhat ugly, and I think an XMLish like thing suits it well. On the other hand, I think JSON is a good fit for a gps trace (since it is just structured data), and using XML is bleh. The big reason that XML gets used everywhere is because it gets used everywhere :). If a language didn't have a JSON library and an XML library, the XML one would get written first. So even though it is a clumsy language for lots of things, it is at least a clumsy standard language. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
