Re: [xml-dev] JSON DDL suggestions?

[Rhodri James <rhodri@kynesim.co.uk>]

On 28/11/2018 15:42, Toby Considine wrote:
> But this project demands JSON, and the community around the project demands
> JSON. This list has had frequent discussions of XML vs JSON, some technical,
> some tending toward flame, so I am bringing this question here.
You brought it here because of our tendency to flame? :-)

> What do you see as the most accepted JSON DDL format?
Words.

I'm serious.  I've seen plenty of schemas and DDLs for all sorts of 
things in all sorts of data languages, and the main thing they have in 
common is that they are unreadable to mortal man or woman.  This is no 
help whatsoever to anyone coding to handle the resulting data; you may 
be able to generate something to parse your data automatically, but you 
will have no idea what to do with it when you get it.  You have no 
understanding of the semantics or protocols associated with the data 
from a DDL.  You need a full spec, of which a DDL may be a part but 
cannot be all.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd