Re: AJA(*) data formats

["Chris Travers" <..hidden..>]

On 3/14/07, Jeff Kowalczyk <..hidden..> wrote:
> Apropos recent AJAX topics: Do the core developers have any intention to use
> non-XML data representation/transfer formats such as JSON or YAML in LedgerSMB?

Initially, one of the primary representations will be in an XML
document which will be XBRL compliant where appropriate.

However, it should be reasonably easy to convert this to YAML and the
like via XSLT.  I think it would be reasonale to add these scripts
either into an add-on repository or core depending on what people
want.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
> I prefer working with JSON data for Web UI data transfers, and of course JSON
> libraries are available for most languages by now.
>
> On the server-side, YAML (coincidentally a superset of JSON) is probably
> familiar to perl users as a CPAN package metadata format. YAML is surprisingly
> readable for non-programmers, which leads me to think it would be a good
> plain-text representation (and perhaps save-load API) for multi-entity
> documents, such as Invoices.
>
> I'd like to see LedgerSMB have a documented YAML representation for most
> entities in the LedgerSMB schema.
>
> If this were complete enough, a terrific feature would be a YAML-format
> 'journal' of all dataset transactions, in sequence, with alias links to all
> referenced entities, in a plain-text representation.
>
> As a series of YAML documents, this journal would be loadable by most scripting
> languages. It might make an Auditor's job much easier, and make great secondary
> backups. It could also be a compelling story for offering migration to other
> systems, if LedgerSMB doesn't work out for a particular client.
>
>
>
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