"Arborescent, semi-structured" data was covered pretty well, long before
json, by Abiteboul and Bunemanin in
"Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML"
The notation used there was nearly the same as what would become json,
IIRC.
On 2/16/2017 11:16 AM, Ghislain Fourny wrote:
> I agree with Eliot. Both XML and JSON are relevant and both have
> their own strengths. What matters in the end is that this is all
> arborescent, semi-structured data, and that both, in the end, need
> the same kind of technology (parsing, validating, transforming,
> querying, updating, storing, etc).
