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Re: [Json] Fwd: Blog: YANG Takes Off in the Industry

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Fri, 01 August 2014 12:35 UTC

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Carsten Bormann scripsit:

> That vacuum is filled by draft-ietf-netmod-yang-json-00.  (Nature
> abhors vacuum.)

Neither here nor there: that is merely a JSON expression of the XML.  It
has nothing to do with modeling JSON.

Phillip Hallam-Baker scripsit:

> But you could use it to create a data model that was represented in
> JSON.

I haven't read the RFC in any detail, but the model given in 4.2.2 does
not seem to be a JSON model: it is far more complicated.

> And that community refuses to make any changes to XML or XML schema to
> support protocol work.

Or for any other purpose.  Ghu knows I tried.

> So XML is a bad choice for protocol design.

That conclusion I believe to be unwarranted.  The problems with XML are
mostly the hard-to-use APIs, of which one of the worst is that embedded
in all browsers.  If anything is carved in stone these days, it is the
DOM.

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