Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux

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Bjoern Hoehrmann <>
To
John Cowan <>
Date
2011-02-21T20:23:33Z
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Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux
* John Cowan wrote:
>Oh, I see; you want a conventional way of *embedding* XML in pure JSON,
>as opposed to an *extension* of JSON.  I didn't realize that.  In that
>case, I'd rather use the style in which
>
>        <a href="http://example.com">This is <i>mixed</i> text</a>
>
>becomes
>
>        {"#name" : "a",
>         "#attrs" : {"href" : "http://example.com"},
>         "#children" : [
>            "This is ",
>            {"#name" : "i",
>             "#attrs" : {},
>             "#children" : ["mixed"]},
>            " text"]}
>
>Verbose, but it requires only one parser, not two.

Well, then you might aswell just use, say, <http://jsonml.org/>.
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