On Thu 12/7/18 10:58 PM, Liam R. E. Quin wrote:
> If you're going to do extend JSON, why not allow
> {
> sku: "123456789",
> name: "argyle socks",
> item.fabric: "organic fair-traded happily-grown thistle",
> item.colour: "orange",
> <description><p>hese organic socks really pop,
> with their <bold>super-bright</bold> orange and
> blue stripes and their sharp thistle spikes.</p>
> <p>Commonly sold with our <itemref
> sku="83728372">SockLock</itemref> patented technology.</p>
> </description>
> }
Thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, there could be many different ways to extend JSON to support mixed
content.
But I don't think just directly mixing JSON with XML is a good choice.
Mark tries to inherit or keep the simplicity of JSON as much as
possible, both in syntax and data model.
1. In syntax, Mark uses '{ }' as the delimiters, which are already used
by JSON, thus avoid another set of delimiters '< >', which just serve
the same purpose.
2. Data model wise, each Mark object is still a simple JS object, just
like JSON.
But it can cleanly represent both JSON and XML data, which I think is
the beauty of Mark.
Regards
Henry
