Hacker News with Generative AI: Data Formats

ASCII Delimited Text – Not CSV or Tab Delimited Text (wordpress.com)
Unfortunately a quick google search on “ASCII Delimited Text” shows that IBM and Oracle failed to read the ASCII specification and both define ASCII Delimited Text as a CSV format. ASCII Delimited Text should use the record separators defined as ASCII 28-31.

Data Formats, Programming, Text Processing, Technical Standards

114 points by ejstronge 11 days ago | 117 comments

New better alterative to XML, JSON and YAML (xenondata.org)
Xenon is the best way to represent information: Terse. Readable multiple line indented text. Native support for arrays Native support for a graph structure, elements may have multiple parents. Native support for a types used in serialization. Unambiguous choice of data structure. Efficient to write by hand. Can be implemented to be blazingly fast or using a mode-less tokenizer/parser. The xenon document is named.

Data Formats, Programming Languages, Software Development

24 points by GeneThomas 17 days ago | 142 comments

JSON Patch (zuplo.com)
JSON Patch is a standardized format defined in RFC 6902 for describing how to modify a JSON document.

JSON, API, Web Development, Data Formats

300 points by DataOverload 35 days ago | 160 comments

JSON is usually the least bad option for machine-readable output formats (utoronto.ca)

JSON, Data Formats, Programming, Software Engineering

20 points by luu 86 days ago | 14 comments

CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good (matthodges.com)

Data Formats, Programming, Software Development

107 points by hieronymusN 99 days ago | 127 comments

Recommended Formats Statement (loc.gov)