> The requirement for the mandatory BOM is unacceptable for most non-Windows users
I think the requirement for Unicode is bad in general, whether it uses BOM or not.
> What on earth is "IEEE 64 bit double precision floating point numbers" in the context of textual format?
I assume it means that numbers are expected to be IEEE 64-bit floating point numbers represented in the decimal format.
> If you have to escape the base64 padding, maybe you should just drop the padding?
I agree.
> While technically a matter of choice, it uses a lot of unmatching angle brackets and that's just... ugly.
I agree with that too.
> No canonical representation.
I think that a binary format would be better as a canonical representation anyways. However, the lack of indicating the data type would seem to make it difficult to know how to convert it unless you already know the schema.
> Maybe you should review tons of other alternatives in this space
Just a few days ago, and still working on it today, I had been making something called TER. It might also be worth to look, and I wrote another comment relating to this.
Xenon does have a reference type to other nodes, which is something that other similar formats don't have, though.
I think the requirement for Unicode is bad in general, whether it uses BOM or not.
> What on earth is "IEEE 64 bit double precision floating point numbers" in the context of textual format?
I assume it means that numbers are expected to be IEEE 64-bit floating point numbers represented in the decimal format.
> If you have to escape the base64 padding, maybe you should just drop the padding?
I agree.
> While technically a matter of choice, it uses a lot of unmatching angle brackets and that's just... ugly.
I agree with that too.
> No canonical representation.
I think that a binary format would be better as a canonical representation anyways. However, the lack of indicating the data type would seem to make it difficult to know how to convert it unless you already know the schema.
> Maybe you should review tons of other alternatives in this space
Just a few days ago, and still working on it today, I had been making something called TER. It might also be worth to look, and I wrote another comment relating to this.
Xenon does have a reference type to other nodes, which is something that other similar formats don't have, though.