Comparing XML, JSON, and YAML (DevNet)

[@chris76706]

This is such a down to earth video explaining the differences. Thanks!

[@RowellDionicio]

Thanks, Chris!

[@richardhere2]

Awesome video! It would be cool to see what you can do with that YAML file. btw your set is very nice with the overlays, mouse, mic.

[@RowellDionicio]

Thanks, Richard. One of the future videos I will look into configuration with YAML files.

[@eddugs]

Good job, Rowell. Congratulations! I hope you can upload more videos related to the devnet cert. (I already checked your videos about parsing XML and JSON with Python)

[@RowellDionicio]

Thank you! I plan to add more as time permits

[@aselahars1]

Awesome Explanation,Rowell..

[@RowellDionicio]

Thank you!

[@Raja_IT_Trainer]

Good explanation... Thanks much for making easy understable vidio..

[@RowellDionicio]

You're welcome!

[@linslus27]

Very clear and easy to understand. Thank you!

[@RowellDionicio]

You are welcome!

[@ThePakky35dk]

Awesome! It's easy to understand. (May I know a tool that you use to draw the green arrow or square arrow etc.?)

[@anupkumar601]

You talked about definitions and structure of XML/JSON. please explain why we should use JSON instead of XML.

[@RowellDionicio]

JSON is much easier to read (humanly) compared to XML. But it also depends on what system you're using and whether it uses XML or JSON.

[@anupkumar601]

@@RowellDionicio please correct me where I am wrong. Becouse this is my personal understanding..now days for UI we are mostly use html & scripting language. Javascript/jQuery is the most popular scripting language and JSON is directly supported by javascript.. additionally JSON have values in key/value format that most programming languages support (ie. Dictionary in c#). In compare to JSON , XML have much more features like- validations on data etc.. JSON simply carry data so, it's obesely lightweight than XML.

[@silentkille4]

very informative video I'm learning to be devnet associate and this is helpful. personally, i like YAML it's way more human-readable but as an OK python user im also happy with JSON :D

[@RowellDionicio]

Personally, I like JSON more but maybe your opinion will change depending on how you have to work with the data.

[@microsoftsurfacegeekdetail5739]

Thank you for doing this video

[@RowellDionicio]

No problem 😊

[@jawssky]

Well done. I too thought the use of the arrows and pointer were very helpful.

[@RowellDionicio]

Thanks!

[@Overthought7]

the YAML example was a bit confusing, as it seems invalid. the outer list of objects has items with different indents

[@markthomas9641]

You might find DeltaJSON a really useful tool for comparing and merging JSON data, it has an API for automating scripts too. I think they have an XML compare tool as well.

[@br101nt]

ótima explicação, abraços do Brasil .

[@RowellDionicio]

Thanks for visiting from Brasil!

[@verlaine_devnet]

Thank you so much

[@RowellDionicio]

Any time

[@JiriBrejcha]

Nice job, Rowell! Just our of interest, what software do you use to do the overlays and switch between the screen layouts?

[@RowellDionicio]

Thanks Jiri. I’m using Ecamm Live.

[@Channelrun9878]

Hi Rowell, Can you show us a tutorial on how to use Python to make the XML output pretty

[@RowellDionicio]

I sure can!

[@AdobadoFantastico]

I think YAML will be my new favorite.

[@RowellDionicio]

Easy peasy, right?

[@hyungtaecf]

The problem with yaml is that it can’t be minified. It’s terrible for large amounts of data. Half of your file would be just whitespaces.

[@sebastianwardana1527]

so you worked on this yourself?

[@RowellDionicio]

Yeah I looked at various resources to understand the differences. It was mainly in preparation for the DevNet Associate.

[@AndrewTSq]

JSON is easy to understand. YAML seems to be the worst of them, since I never thought it was clever to use intendation, and I really dislike reading XML. So JSON is the clear winner for me.

[@RowellDionicio]

I agree with you!

[@nickhuynh6321]

I like json

[@RowellDionicio]

Same here!

[@simpson6700]

i mean i know what they look like, i wanted to know why to use one rather than another.

[@sebastianwardana1527]

isnt it funny... you just relearn stuff when you need it... but then you dont wanna use it... bc theres you know... theres stuff out there that you can use right now instead of loading in that data...

[@RowellDionicio]

I find that I’m referring back to my own stuff often. I just used JSON not too long ago on a project. Saved me hours of time by using a script.

[@niektolen]

fall asleep after 2 mins

[@RowellDionicio]

Good night :)