Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- Subject: Re: Use XML to create extensible data structures in text fields?
- From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:00:34 -0600
Yes, that's the idea. Thanks for the links!
Michael
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Christopher Stone <
email@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/23/2017, at 13:38, Michael Grant <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Apart from just googling, do you have any
> suggestions for an absolute beginner to get oriented with JSON? Would I
> have to learn Javascript?
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Hey Michael,
>
> My sense from your original post was that you were going to dump this data
> structure in a text field in one or more apps. In view of that I though it
> might be better to use a data structure that is easier to read than XML.
>
> See the JSON vs. XML section on this page.
>
> https://beginnersbook.com/2015/04/json-tutorial/
>
> You can see how much easier to read JSON is compared to XML.
>
> You may also want to peruse this:
>
> https://www.tutorialspoint.com/json/json_tutorial.pdf
>
> JSON has become quite ubiquitous so JavaScript, Objective-C, AppleScriptObjC,
> Perl, Python, Ruby, and other language have modules for working with it.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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