JSON, The Fat-Free Alternative to XML

JSON is a light-weight, language independent format for data interchange. It is especially popular in Ajax (or interactive web browser-based) applications.

Track:

XML on the Web

Primary Presenter:

Douglas Crockford, Architect, Yahoo! Inc. (http://www.JSON.org/)

Proceedings:

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Abstract

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data interchange format. Its design goals were to be textual, minimal, and a subset of JavaScript. It is based on a Programming Language Model rather than a Document, Database, or Ad Hoc Model, so it is particularly effective in exchanging data between applications that are implemented in modern programming languages. It supports two structures: objects (unordered collections of name/value pairs) and arrays (ordered sequences of values). It supports four simple types: strings, numbers, booleans, and null.