6 May
2009
6 May
'09
2:21 p.m.
I don't believe this will make JSON or TXT either less flexible or more work for machines - to the contrary, I believe it's easier to parse if you don't have to have rules like 'always ignore ||| which is just there as legacy from the XML'.
That may be fine if we don't mind the text version being lossy, which is something else I was trying to avoid.
Don't think we need to make it lossy - just would need slightly smarter conversion tools when converting back to XML which know when they have to put in blank or standard XML fields which have been omitted for simplicity in other formats. Richard.