[xquery-talk] Izzit Bcos I is functional?

[Ihe Onwuka]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:26 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 17, 2015, at 12:49 AM, Michael Kay <mike at saxonica.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> But you can pretty much model the semantic equivalent of JSON data
> without having to use a Schema, namespace, PI or any  traverse any other of
> these treacherous terrains. Call it XML the Good Parts (Hmmmm where did I
> get that idea from). JSON is a very expensive over-reaction. There was no
> need to invent another format and then make in non-interoperable with XML.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Actually, I don’t agree. The cost of doing simple things with XML, like
> configuration files, is far too high (because of all the other things it is
> capable of that you don’t need for such cases) and there was a very real
> need for something simpler for that kind of application. Restricting
> yourself to a subset of XML doesn’t greatly reduce the cost of writing code
> to process it, you still have to use the same APIs. Perhaps it could have
> been achieved with some kind of MicroXML, but as a community, we failed to
> deliver that.
>
> I agree with Michael here. There was a need, and the world satisfied it.
> That’s all.
>
> But in any case, the world could not care less about what WE think at this
> point.
>
> Both XML and JSON are here to stay. There are good reasons for each one of
> them.
>
> So, ideally, in the future:
>
> (1) the two technologies will not be developed completely independently
> (users will need to deal with both in the
>  same time, so that would be a terribly expensive exercise for the
> industry as a whole) and
>
> (2) JSON people will learn something from what has been developed in the
> XML world , and they won’t start from scratch , aka
> from were XML  started in 1996.
>
> We can dream, can’t we !?? :-)
>
>
Well I have no particular beef with the format itself other than the lack
of tools. Now that we have JSONiq I am less bothered about that (assuming
one has the opportunity to use it).

I agree with your ideals (1 and 2 above) too but it should be evident from
the sociology of the JSON community that these things are not going to
happen. You have people putting stuff in JSON databases without thinking
how are we going to get it out and coming up with half-assed solutions for
doing so. This is not progress and this is not good.
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