>>>JSON has its place in data processing and interchange. XML is more people-friendly.
>>You do realize that you have to have a schema for that to work right?
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>Only if you use standard XML tools and the obtuse syntax they impose upon people. If you keep it streamlined and write your own then it's no issue.
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>Visual FreePro and Visual FreePro, Jr., for example, define BXML, which exactly parallels the simple core XML syntax, with the addition that a length can be specified for attributes with a colon and the length and an equal sign with or without quotes afterward. If the length definition is not present it's basically identical to existing XML syntax.
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<bxml>
>  <data name:4=Rick/>
></bxml>

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>It allows you to specify "binary" data (or fixed length data) within an XML tag for rapid processing (BXML = binary XML).
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>A standard SQL-like query language works through the implied data hierarchies which exist within bxml which, when applied to container definitions, are of the form: table + struct, data. It even allows immediate sub-storage of ad hoc data relative to each element.
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>See: BXML on Visual FreePro's wiki
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>The syntax there is actually stale as I no longer require the [?bxml version?] line, and have made it a single version so it works with [bxml] alone (using < and > instead of [ and ]).

https://xkcd.com/927/