Data formats and serialization
Structured formats, schemas, parsing, serialization and interoperability across systems.
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Guides
Guides connected to this category.
JSON Schema: describing and validating data structures
How JSON Schema expresses types, properties, constraints, composition and compatibility for JSON documents.
YAML: syntax, types and structures
A guide to YAML as a human-readable serialization format: scalars, collections, indentation, anchors and parsing pitfalls.
XML: elements, attributes, namespaces and documents
XML fundamentals: tree structure, attributes, namespaces, encoding, validation and interoperability.
JSON vs YAML vs XML: choosing the right format
A reasoned comparison of JSON, YAML and XML for APIs, configuration, documents, schemas and interoperability.
Data serialization and deserialization
How in-memory structures become transferable representations and what can break across types, versions and systems.