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    copied!<p>I'm looking for opinions on whether microformats should be used to name JSON elements. For instance, there is a <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/adr" rel="nofollow noreferrer">microformat for physical addresses</a>, that looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;div class="adr"&gt; &lt;div class="street-address"&gt;665 3rd St.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="extended-address"&gt;Suite 207&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span class="locality"&gt;San Francisco&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="region"&gt;CA&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="postal-code"&gt;94107&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div class="country-name"&gt;U.S.A.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; </code></pre> <p>There is a document available on using <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/json" rel="nofollow noreferrer">JSON and Microformats</a>. The information above could be represented as JSON data like this:</p> <pre><code>"adr": { "street-address":"665 3rd St.", "extended-address":"Suite 207", "locality":"San Fransicso", "region":"CA", "postal-code":"94107", "country-name":"U.S.A." }, </code></pre> <p>The issue I have with this is that I'd like my JSON data to be as lightweight as possible, but still human readable. While still supporting international addresses, I would prefer something like this:</p> <pre><code>"address": { "street":"665 3rd St.", "extended":"Suite 207", "locality":"San Fransicso", "region":"CA", "code":"94107", "country":"U.S.A." }, </code></pre> <p>If I'm designing a new JSON API right now, does it make sense to use microformats from the start? Or should I not really worry about it? Is there some other standard that is more specific to JSON that I should look at?</p>
 

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