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I am yet to see an example that makes me say "this JSON file does not represent the data very well, I wish they used XML instead". Representing HTML/XML does no

I am yet to see an example that makes me say "this JSON file does not represent the data very well, I wish they used XML instead". Representing HTML/XML does not count.

Jach 11y ago
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falcolas 11y ago
Encode a hash table where key order matters (like the Python OrderedDict). Or a hash table with non-string keys (like a sky chart with XY coordinates). Or any other data structure which doesn't conform to a simple list/hash table format. Right tool for the job. JSON is a great 80% encoding format, which handles most cases. The problem is that folks try to make it handle all cases (ironically, just like they did with XML).