JSON Again, Stop Me Before It's Too Late

[Alan Gutierrez <alan-xml-dev@engrm.com>]

    I'm developing a JavaScript/DHTML application. Ruby on Rails
    uses the Prototype and script.aculo.us JavaScript libraries,
    which are gaining traction in this area of web development.

    JSON has been discussed here before. I started to use JSON
    because when I view source on many DHTML applications, that's
    what I see. It was quick and dirty, and I knocked out an XSLT
    2.0 transform to generate JSON and HTML generator functions.

    Now I'm trying to figure out how to escape strings...

    This is the JavaScript code to stringify a string, and the 
    implementations of JSON stringifiers in other languages are just
    as simplistic. Look for: case 'string':

    http://www.crockford.com/JSON/json.js

    I'm a Mid-Western American who wouldn't know how to make his
    computer spell cafe correctly if his life depdended on it. I try
    to defer learning the details of Unicode by adhearing to the XML
    specifications and Java APIs as best I can.
    
    That block of code does not look like it encompases the width
    and breadth of i18n, but maybe I'm mistaken.

    It's not too late for me to start exploring using XML for
    transport.

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