• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:02:09 +0000

On 03/02/2011 15:57, Richard Salz wrote:
> Folks might be interested in JSONx, an IBM standard to convert xml<>json.
> The spec is pretty short; the output a little verbose, but it was
> important to us that round-tripping be preserved.  Here's the start of
> some documentation; the spec itself is on the "next page" from this link:
>
> http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/index.jsp?topic=/xs40/convertingbetweenjsonandjsonx05.htm
> There's also some developerWorks articles on it, but I couldn't easily
> find them.
>
> Is it worth writing this up in a better place?  If so, where's?  An RFC?
>

I think an RFC would be great, and this list is probably as good a place 
as any to refine it.

The IBM spec looks very similar to David Lee's: more concise because it 
omits the MEMBER element, but at the cost of some loss of semantic 
clarity, in my view. A string in JSON does not have a name property; 
rather, a member of an object has a name and a value, and the value may 
be a string.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • #Announce published JXML schema, an XML schema for representingthe JSON data model
    • From: Richard Salz <rsalz@u...>