Thomas Passin wrote:
> Remember that XML is not actually a language but a toolkit for
> specifying languages.
By that I believe you mean that I can define an XML vocabulary and then create many XML instances which use that vocabulary. For example, I can define a BookStore XML vocabulary and then create many Bookstore instances, I can define a Cellphone XML vocabulary and then create many Cellphone instances. I use XML Schema to define each XML vocabulary.
Right?
> JSON is a language.
With JSON I can define a JSON vocabulary and then create many JSON instances which use that vocabulary. For example, I can define a BookStore JSON vocabulary and then create many Bookstore instances, I can define a Cellphone JSON vocabulary and then create many Cellphone instances. I use JSON Schema to define each JSON vocabulary.
Aren't XML and JSON equivalent in the sense that they are syntaxes from which many XML-formatted/JSON-formatted languages may be created?
/Roger
