Re: [xml-dev] yet another richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchicaldat

Hi,

Indeed, having rich types (dates and times, binary...) is crucial to many enterprise use cases. I also like the read optimization -- so true, even for code.

I think it would be desirable at some point to standardize atomic types across data formats, that is, have them in common between JSON, XML, etc. We (Zorba/JSONiq/JSound) have been advocating that most of the atomic types defined in XML Schema are also a perfect fit for JSON.

It is also interesting to note that there are attempts out there to simplify XML on the one hand, and to enrich JSON on the other hand -- it shows how use cases are so diverse and how the technologies used must be designed when them in mind..

Kind regards,

Ghislain

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Alain Couthures <alain.couthures@agencexml.com> wrote:

Ion has interesting features: more typed values (just typed elements or attributes in XML...), sequences and symbols (?).

Serialized binary data for images! Just thinking about DOCX files which are ZIP files with XML data + binary data to be embedded...

Thanks!

--Alain

Le 22/04/2016 18:21, Simon St.Laurent a écrit :

Like YAML, though from different roots, Ion is a superset of JSON. Unlike JSON, it has a read-optimized binary format in addition to a text-based format.

http://amznlabs.github.io/ion-docs/index.html

(via Tim Bray, though he says it wasn't his work.)

Thanks,
Simon St.Laurent

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