Re: Following up on the good argument for XML thread, JSON is simpler and more space efficient, and seems to be catching on as a data interchange format!

Casey Hawthorne <caseyhHAMMER_TIME_at_istar.ca> writes:

> I wonder what the trade-offs are between JSON, XML, and other data
> interchange formats.

I've found many programmers using YAML <URL:http://www.yaml.org/> as having the same advantages of JSON, with broad support in language libraries, while being even closer to human-readable representation of structure.

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