This analysis of what I wrote last night about JSON and XML is spot on.
People often conflate XML (a pretty basic technology) with the monstrosity that is the “Enterprise XML” stack built on top of it (starting with but not limited to XSD).
Granted, there are things to not like about XML itself, but none of them are fatal.
And yes, I believe had JSON been an option in the late 1990's, lots of things people do today with XML would have been better served had they gone with a data rep that matches the way most developers think (as opposed to how content specialists think).
All of that said, if “the industry” were to build out the XSD/XQuery/etc. feature set on top of JSON, my guess is we'd wind up with a similarly complicated beast - especially that effort were to lead with standardization rather than implementation again.
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Jan 18 2007, 03:29 PM
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don-box