Re: [xml-dev] Percentage of web services supporting XML versus JSON

[Norman Gray <norman@astro.gla.ac.uk>]

Greetings.

On 2014 Jun 9, at 14:17, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote:

> On 06/09/2014 09:12 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
>> Further discussion here.
>> 
>> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2014-March/078228.html

An argument presented with a degree of adamantine certainty that cries out for refutation.

> Messaging formats are hard.  I'll be curious what Loic's come up with at this point.  Despite the Erlang community's fondness for ASN.1, I'm guessing it's not that.

ASN.1 has its amusement value (ASN.1 _is_ amusing, if one is in an adequately perverse mood).  I devised a JSON <-> ASN.1 conversion library myself, a little while ago <https://bitbucket.org/nxg/jason>, so it's not that hard to come up with this idea.

The message that follows the quoted one points to <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7049.txt>, which includes a rather instructive comparison (Appx. E) of binary formats.

Best wishes,

Norman


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