Many applications communicate by exchanging JSON objects instead of XML documents. Chapter 7 introduces JSON, tours its syntax, demonstrates JSON in a JavaScript context, and shows how to validate JSON objects in the context of JSON Schema.
What Is JSON?
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a language-independent data format that expresses JSON objects as human-readable lists of properties (name/value pairs). Although derived from a nonstrict subset of JavaScript, code to parse JSON objects into equivalent language-dependent objects is available in many programming languages.
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