RE: [xml-dev] JSONx sent to the IETF

["David Lee" <dlee@calldei.com>]

Re: using JSON escapes for non-XML data,
this is what my personal idea of the 'Ideal XML JSON schema' does:

http://xml.calldei.com/JsonXML

Although its really just a statement ... but then what are specs but
statements ?


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David A. Lee
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 2:47 PM
To: David Lee
Cc: 'Richard Salz'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] JSONx sent to the IETF


David Lee scripsit:

> XMLj is the obvious choice for a name.

I like RAJDAX (Representation of All JSON Documents As XML), as distinct
from RAXDAJ, which would be JsonML.

> plus it doesn't handle non XML character data well (say NUL's) ...

I think that's the major deficiency.  Some additional machinery is
needed to be able to escape C0 control characters (other than newlines
in string values, which can be left raw) and unpaired surrogates
represented by JSON escapes.  The obvious choice is to use JSON escapes
in the XML, at least \unnnn and \\.

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