Re: [xml-dev] Stick with XML ... JSON is a minefield of securityrisks an

[Steve Newcomb <srn@coolheads.com>]

IFF the purpose of a standard is to enable information interchange 
within some declared set of cases, then its goal should be to permit the 
finger of blame to be pointed whenever accurate information interchange 
fails to occur.  When the finger of blame cannot be pointed, maintenance 
is required.

When maintenance is required but prevented, well, ... it's like the 
situation in which the U.S. government currently finds itself.  It 
bothers me.  Laws, like standards, are exploitable piles of hacks.  When 
laws fail to serve the people's interests, they require maintenance.  
The trick is to treat the maintenance of a law as more important -- and 
more urgent -- than the side-effects of casting off its current 
accumulation of exploits. Best to keep the accumulation as light as 
possible, because it soon gets away from you, and the accumulated 
exploits overshadow the original purpose of the law itself.