Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Stephen Green scripsit:

> With all this discussion of types, is it still the main motivator
> behind using JSON or this XML-oriented variant of JSON
> that Javascript be able to parse the data natvively (or pretty
> much natively, perhaps with some pre- and/or post-processing)?

Well, clearly not.  But JSON is very much a language of wider
communication nowadays than just browser-server.

In addition, there's a convention that maps XML fragments onto pure
JSON -- not Badgerfish, but another one whose silly name I forget.
Each XML element becomes an object with three key-value pairs: "#name"
maps to the name, "#attrs" to the attributes (as a JSON object), and
"#children" to the children (as a JSON array of strings and/or objects).
This, of course, is exactly the MicroXML data model.

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