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Try sending a date as JSON. The only way to do this is to convert it to a string and tell the other guy ``Oh, and by the way, this field is ostensibly a string/list/mapping/number, but you actually need to interpret it in a specific way to get a date.''. Now it may seem that XML has the same problem, but you can use XML schemata to tell the other guy's
parser which fields are dates.
YAML probably solves this in a better way with user defined data types, but
ONE WORD, THE FORCED INDENTATION OF DATA, THREAD OVER.