Re:Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)
by mrweasel on Saturday March 09, 2024 @04:03AM
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Given that I don't know what you do, that might be a completely reasonable solution, in your case.
My background is being woken up at 3AM by alert of call for systems where I have less that 100% familiarity and is asked to troubleshot. Looking at a hexdump for a format I don't know is not all that helpful. Seeming a mangled XML document, or reading the JSON output from an API call can frequently be enough to know if I need to call a developer, or if I can work with the client and fix the data.
Binary formats are absolutely a valid solution of a number of problems and if it works in your context there's no reason to change it.
My background is being woken up at 3AM by alert of call for systems where I have less that 100% familiarity and is asked to troubleshot. Looking at a hexdump for a format I don't know is not all that helpful. Seeming a mangled XML document, or reading the JSON output from an API call can frequently be enough to know if I need to call a developer, or if I can work with the client and fix the data.
Binary formats are absolutely a valid solution of a number of problems and if it works in your context there's no reason to change it.