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If JSON and YAML were first on the scene; XML would be invented as an answer. Hard to mess up. Robust schema language. Very flexible. Easy to process. Yeah, i
by berniedurfee 4y ago
If JSON and YAML were first on the scene; XML would be invented as an answer.
Hard to mess up.
Robust schema language.
Very flexible.
Easy to process.
Yeah, it’s verbose, but that’s the trade-off between usability and robustness.
Now get off my lawn!
- lanstin 4y agoWhat XML replaced was a combination of custom designed (often binary) formats and HTTP query-string like syntaxes. It is quite verbose compared to either of them, and explodes both your bandwidth and serialize/deserialize times, but it is arguably easier for your new co-worker to guess that the address line 2 goes in <address2>...</address2> rather than prefix tagged with 13, or worse yet at offset 42-61. I got used to XML, tho I never could quite understand XSLT and the desire to program in it. I got used to json, but yaml I just can't bring myself to parse. YAML is 90% stuff you can't guess and just 10% data. And why so many?