[Json] Accidental schema language

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 02 December 2016 01:55 UTC

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I had to write a validator for a JSON DSL in an AWS product, and I ended up
sketching in a sort of one-off schema language for the purpose. Of the 27
people on earth who care about such things, a majority are probably on this
mailing list:
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/12/01/J2119-Validator
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