Pete Cordell wrote:
> Original Message From: "Michael Kay"
>
>> Is there an accepted mapping of JSON to XML? And is there a SAX parser?
>
> I'm sure I read an article somewhere that suggested XML attributes in JSON
> would be prefixed with @, and a text node would have a name that was
> illegal
> in XML, such as "$". With that convention it's quite easy to have some
> JSON
> data and convert it to XML, e.g.:
>
> "foo" : { "@id" : "???", "$" : "yyy" }
>
> gives:
>
> <foo id="???">yyy</foo>
What happens when the map key contains a space, or is otherwise not a
valid NCName?
> What seems to be more difficult is going the other way, i.e XML to JSON.
> After a bit of surfing some things called Badgerfish and mapping popped
> up a
> few times. However, it does get a bit messy, especially when handling
> namespaces.
Neither way is especially simple.
John
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