On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:36 PM, John Cowan
<cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
Kurt Cagle scripsit:
> The role of xml() is simply to disambiguate the content within the
> block as being XML rather than being text. In a JSON filter without
> any XML namespace awareness, it would become the responsibility of
> the client to parse the XML into some kind of DOM representation,
> in JAXON this would be a flag used to identify this as intentionally
> xml content. Otherwise, you would need to know a-priori that this was
> an XML property, which rather defeats the whole process.
I still don't understand what you're getting at. If a value in JSON
begins with a digit or sign, it's a number; if it begins with a quote,
it's a string; if it begins with [ or {, it is an array or object;
if it is true, false, or null, it's those special objects. It can't
begin with a <, so we just say that in JAXON, if it begins with <, it is
an XML element. Done.
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