References

By the FormatterHub Editorial Team · Last updated August 07, 2026

Our formatters and guides are grounded in official specifications rather than guesswork. The primary sources we build against and cite include:

  • ECMA-404 -- The JSON Data Interchange Syntax.
  • W3C XML 1.0 -- the XML specification our XML/WSDL/ SOAP engine implements, including entity-handling rules relevant to XXE protection.
  • ECMA-262 -- the ECMAScript Language Specification behind our JavaScript parsing and validation.
  • JSON Schema (draft-07) -- the specification our schema generator and validator target.
  • YAML 1.2 -- the specification behind our YAML engine (via PyYAML).
  • RFC 4648 -- the Base16/Base32/Base64 encodings used by our Base64 tool.
  • RFC 4122 -- the UUID specification our UUID generator follows (version 4, cryptographically random).

When a guide summarises a specification in plain language, we link back to the primary source so you can verify the details yourself rather than take our word for it.

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