This seems more like competition for YAML than for XML.
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Nathan Young
CDC Site Design & Development->Interface Development Team
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Megginson [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 11:54 AM
> To: XML Developers List
> Subject: [xml-dev] JSON (was Re: [xml-dev] 10th anniversary
> of the annoucement of XML ..need help)
>
> On 07/06/06, Tahir Hashmi <> wrote:
>
> > > XML is cool. XML is useful. Is XML the permanent last word in
> > > markup specification languages? If not, what will be next?
> >
> > JSON? http://json.org/ http://www.json.org/xml.html
>
> JSON is data structures represented as JavaScript/ECMAScript source
> code, so that they can be loaded easily into web browsers -- it's
> certainly a strong competitor to XML in the AJAX space, but I'm not
> sure we'll see it for general data interchange. If anyone wants to
> make some good arguments one way or another, I'd be happy to see them
> as a paper proposal for XML 2006.
>
> If people do want to use programming-language syntax to exchange
> generic data, I'm putting in a vote for LISP S-expressions before it's
> too late. Is anyone with me?
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
> David
>
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