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Re: [Acme] Message Type/Version Identifiers

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 19:53 UTC

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On 18 December 2014 at 03:08, Anders Rundgren
<anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have "backported" these things to JSON because I think they were good.  A
> system like
> ACME could also use such a scheme since there will undoubtedly be revisions
> over time.

I can appreciate the attraction, but this is a big "no" for me.
Absence of these features is one of the reasons that JSON has proven
successful over XML.

If you need versioning at that level, I'd recommend defining a content
type instead.

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