<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Tod Hagan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tod@gust.sr.unh.edu">tod@gust.sr.unh.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:20 -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:<br>
> ...XML...The fundamental problem is (as Don said as well) that as far as I know<br>
> there ARE NO really good solutions to the problem of the representation,<br>
> encapsulation, and transmission of hierarchical data structures in a<br>
> portable and efficient way. If you know of one, please correct me (and<br>
> that isn't a sarcastic request but a serious one).<br>
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I don't know if you consider them 'good solutions', but two alternatives<br>
to XML are YAML and JSON:<br>
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YAML:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML</a><br>
<a href="http://yaml.org/" target="_blank">http://yaml.org/</a><br>
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JSON:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON</a><br>
<a href="http://json.org/" target="_blank">http://json.org/</a></blockquote><div><br>Just to add to the list --<br><br>{canonical, } s-expressions<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-expression</a><br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_S-expressions">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_S-expressions</a><br><br>Again, I am not claiming that it's a 'better solution' or not. YOMV.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Tod<br>
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Tod Hagan<br>
Information Technologist<br>
AIRMAP/Climate Change Research Center<br>
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space<br>
University of New Hampshire<br>
Durham, NH 03824<br>
Phone: 603-862-3116<br>
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