# Specifying JSON —Tim Bray “I find myself tasked with polishing and publishing a little custom JSON-encoded language. It’s harder than it ought to be.”

<https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/30/JSON-Schema-funnies>

- Host: [tbray.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/tbray.org/)
- Saved: April 30, 2016 (2016-05-01T04:05:48Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6beb59936894/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/6beb59936894.json

## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

If it looks like a document, use XML. If it looks like an object, use JSON. It’s that simple. The essential difference isn’t simplicity/complexity or compact/verbose or typed/text, it’s ordered-by-default or not

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2016/04/30/JSON-Schema-funnies