Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Fri Feb 7 18:08:25 CST 2014
The top comment is missing the most blindingly obvious reason why you would use JSON over XML - and it's right in the name. JSON = JavaScript Object Notation (the big clue here is JavaScript!) This is how you write JavaScript objects, because JSON is a subset of JS. JSON was introduced as a way of providing data (server to client) in a format that he browser/JavaScript didn't have to parse for rich web apps. It got more popular and has grown to be used in more environments simply because it is lighter and reads a lot easier than XML (good lord, reading large XML documents can sometimes be a nightmare. Don't use XML for configuration! :) ). Best regards, Hans-Christian Andersen > On 7 Feb 2014, at 14:07, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > > Hi All: > > I have often wondered what the differences and the reasons why someone would use JASON objects instead of XML objects and vice-versa. > > It seems that the explanation is fairly simple. See the answer in the following link: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2620270/what-is-the-difference-between-json-and-xml > > Now you can rest easy. ;-) > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com