OASIS Approves OData 4.0 Standards For an Open, Programmable Web 68
First time accepted submitter Dilettant writes "The OASIS members approved Version 4 of the OData standards, which now also feature the long requested compact JSON as primary format. OData helps "simplifying data sharing across disparate applications in enterprise, cloud, and mobile devices" through interfacing data sources via a REST like interface."
Oh the irony (Score:4, Interesting)
At the link for the specifications OData JSON Format Version 4.0 [oasis-open.org]
The documents that are tagged as Authoritative are .doc, not even .docx
Re:JSON Sucks (Score:3, Interesting)
"The funny thing is that, at the end of the day, JSON and XML are the same thing, only syntactically different."
Yes, exactly. But XML is readable by people. JSON is not. Just try to read any big dataset in JSON, especially if it's minified. Good luck. At least with XML you have a shot.
Having said that: there are lots of good tools for converting from one to the other, so it could be a lot worse.
You make a good point about standards and validation, though, too. That's why business data interchanges are generally built on XML, and not JSON. Even though JSON is generally more efficient.
Re:Oh the irony (Score:2, Interesting)
Oh the irony
History, not irony.
Microsoft took over OASIS in 2006 as part of their campaign to scuttle open document formats. They're still running the show there.
http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft... [zdnet.com]