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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:07:23 JST clacke

   Self-describing (schema-less) binary structured data formats:

   ION, CBOR, BSON, BJSON, UBJSON, bencode, Colfer, Flatbuffers, MsgPack, zebrapack, greenpack, Fast Infoset ...

   #cerealization

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:07:19 JST clacke

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     I returned briefly to this topic ( libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2… ) and started thinking of what attempts exist to use a subset of some existing Infoset (XML) binary encoding for the JSON datamodel subset of the Infoset datamodel.

     I already mentioned Fast Infoset here at the top, but the W3C Recommendation for "binary XML" is EXI, Efficient XML Interchange, which I have not yet mentioned in this thread, and:

     > EXI4JSON is a specification developed by the same working group to use the same format for JSON documents.[7]

     
     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficien…

     [7] w3.org/TR/exi-for-json/

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:07:20 JST clacke

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     • Emacsen

     Syrup/Preserves is a netstring-, bencode- or canonical-sexpr-like format with strings, bytestrings, symbols, singles, doubles, integers, lists and dictionaries that strikes a balance between parser- and human-friendly.

     github.com/ocapn/syrup#pseudo-…
     preserves.gitlab.io/preserves/

     /via emacsen.net/@emacsen/106743719… @emacsen

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2023 15:07:22 JST clacke

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     Transit: A rich, extensible, self-describing layer on top of JSON or MsgPack

     github.com/cognitect/transit-f…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:52:58 JST clacke

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     Self-describing: FlexBuffers, an independently usable component of the schema-based FlatBuffers
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:52:59 JST clacke

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     Self-describing: Preserves
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:53:01 JST clacke

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     Self-describing: Canonical S-expressions, Datomic
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:53:02 JST clacke

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     Unclear: NetCDF, HDF5, flatmap
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:53:04 JST clacke

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     Schema-based binary structured data formats:

     Cap'n'Proto, MsgPack (also!), Protobuf, ASN.1, SBE, Thrift, Avro ...

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     Mattias Wadman (wader@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 13:16:42 JST Mattias Wadman

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     @clacke maybe plist and bplist?

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds] (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 13:16:42 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds]

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     • Mattias Wadman

     @wader Interesting! Thanks!
     
     @clacke

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     clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds] (notclacke@fedia.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 13:38:18 JST clacke@libranet.de is my main [fds]

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     • Mattias Wadman

     A very helpful description of the binary list format is available at scribe.rip/@karaiskc/understanding-apples-binary-property-list-format-281e6da00dbd
     
     
     @wader
     
     #PList #BinaryPList #BPList