• From: "Pete Cordell" <petexmldev@c...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:12:04 -0000

Since its nearly Friday, how about an XML JSON Mutant!

In XML a couple of data oriented values might look like:

    <Name>Value</Name>
    <Name2>Value2</Name2>

In JSON they might look like:

    Name:Value,
    Name2:Value2,

In Mutant they might look like:

    <Name:Value>
    <Name2:Value2>

XML with attributes like:

    <Name attr1="v1" attr2="v2">Value</Name>

Would in Mutant be like:

    <Name attr1="v1" attr2="v2" :Value>

(i.e. attributes are placed between the name and the colon)

And XML markup like:

    <Name attr1="v1" attr2="v2">This is <b>Markedup</b> Text</Name>

Would be represented in Mutant like:

    <Name attr1="v1" attr2="v2":This is <b:Markedup> Text>

Or another example might be:

    <Name attr1="v1" :Read <a href="http://...":this> article>

You could even make arrays more efficient by saying that if a pair starts 
with <: (i.e. does not have a name field) it takes the name of the previous 
pair, like:

    <Name:Value1><:Value2><:Value3>

The benefit is that everybody gets to recognise something of their favoured 
technology in the resultant solution, and everybody feels equally 
compromised!

Pete Cordell
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