Figure 1

Basic description of BON. (a) TinySeq XML and an equivalent JSON notation to demonstrate the ratio of clutter between these syntaxes. The tables on the left indicate the size of the attributes and the XML tags or JSON keys, respectively. Sizes are given in bytes. Only those parts shown in red are included in the size calculations. (b) Schematic diagram of the BON format indicating its major components. (c) Basic BON example in JSON syntax. Stars indicate positions where header and payload neighbour using non-valid JSON syntax. The JSON snippet in (a) is an example of a possible payload item and the sequence attribute is an obvious candidate for data compression.