document updated 17 years ago, on Sep 16, 2007
Serialized file formats that are all the rage lately. (most of these are generated/read by programming languages with heavy reliance on introspection, so they're generated/read via a single subroutine call, unlike C's PITA serialization techniques)
Human-readable
- XML, of course (though it doesn't map onto any language's datastructures nicely at all)
- JSON (AJAX-compatible, maps onto perl/python/javascript/etc's internal datastructures nicely)
- S-expressions (maps onto Lisp/Scheme's internal datasctuctures... though is it parsable by AJAX apps?)
Binary