On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Wimpie Nortje wrote:
JSON is not related to YAML at all except in that it is a simple data
format.
That's true, but from the yaml v1.2 spec:
"YAML can therefore be viewed as a natural superset of JSON, offering improved
human readability and a more complete information model. This is also the case in
practice; every JSON file is also a valid YAML file."
That's marketing speak. I find YAML totally unreadable :-)
The advantage of JSON is that a webbrowser parses it natively, and therefor is very fast.
This is clearly not the case for YAML.
And as far as I can see from the specs, YAML also does not offer a direct
way
to capture binary data.
That is also true. I got the impression from wikipedia that YAML has a direct
way to capture the binary data. From the specs I see that YAML uses base64
coding for
binary data, which was what I hoped to prevent because it causes a lot of
computation overhead.
Since they are text formats, this is simply impossible, I fear :(
Michael.
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