JSON has a string notation which is similar to that used in the C family languages. Strings are bounded by double quote characters. Escapement is provided by...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 4, 2006 6:39 am
... These statements have me really wondering about what JSON is supposed to be. The reasoning behind removing comments was that it would "more closely align ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 4, 2006 2:01 pm
... That is correct. JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family of ...
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George
georgenava
Jan 4, 2006 3:04 pm
I agree 100% with you. Do as I do and use Javascript Object Literals as they are specified in the Javascript or ECMAScript Reference. Anything the JS parser...
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Michal Migurski
michal_migurski
Jan 4, 2006 3:28 pm
... Beginning to? I thought this was the idea all along? Syntax that's valid Javascript, Python, and easy to write parsers for other languages. I'm already...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 4, 2006 4:53 pm
... Then can you please explain why it is called JavaScript Object Notation? -- Martin Cooper but uses ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 4, 2006 6:48 pm
... JSON is based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999. See http://www.JSON.org/...
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Peter Ring
peter17ring
Jan 5, 2006 8:25 am
Funny thing is, YAML was designed for human consumption as much as a language-neutral serializing format. And JSON's ancestry (JavaScript) is more in the LISP...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 5, 2006 9:22 am
... It is up to the coder to define 'best practices' not the format to impose or restrict them. << Agreed. The problem lies in some of the inconsistencies...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 5, 2006 1:27 pm
... And who took away single quoted strings and unquoted member names?! Hell yes, I'd like to see the reasoning for changes like that, too.<< << I'd like...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 5, 2006 4:44 pm
The Java implementation at JSON.org is very liberal in the texts that it will accept. The JavaScript implementation is very strict. A JSON encoder must...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 5, 2006 4:51 pm
... I used to agree what comments would be useful. But since I started using JSON, I never discovered what that use was. I have seen them used very badly. I...
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ingliss
Jan 5, 2006 5:12 pm
... (/^(\s|[,:{}\[\]]|"(\\["\\bfnrtu]|[^\x00-\x1f"\\])*"|-?\d+(\.\d*)?([eE][+-]?\d+)?|true|false|null)+$/.test(text)) ... I'm seeing some fairly crippling...
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Martin Cooper
mfncooper
Jan 5, 2006 10:24 pm
... You're not convinced that saving developers' time is valuable? OK, then, how about compatibility? There are lots of JSON implementations out there already,...
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alvinz_c
Jan 8, 2006 2:37 am
Hi, i have a json data like var celldata = [ {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"}, {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"}, {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"} ]; By...
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MPCM
mpcmtechnolo...
Jan 8, 2006 4:15 am
celldata is an array of objects, each object having 2 properties. You can loop through the properties and count, but I'm not sure if there is a function that...
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alvinz_c
Jan 8, 2006 8:45 am
Thanks for your suggestion. It works !! Thanks .... :) ... there is ... run ... way....
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 11, 2006 6:41 pm
I think you are contradicting yourself and proving my point. :-) ... But in some cases, you might want to be looser. There are lots of data representations out...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 11, 2006 10:30 pm
... I have been incrementally improving the speed of the JavaScript parser in response to complaints that it was not optimal. My intention was to make it as...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 12, 2006 8:46 am
Bear in mind that the following... ... [ {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"}, {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"}, {firstcell:"yyy",secondcell:"xxx"} ] << ...is...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 12, 2006 11:28 am
... My intention was to make it as fast as possible while still conforming to the standard. But it is just one possible implementation. If you want to write...
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 12, 2006 12:30 pm
... Thanks for clarifying this [1]. Just for completeness, could you expand on which productions these are? The only one that I am aware of at the moment is...
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Dave Balmer
dbalmerjr
Jan 13, 2006 1:20 am
Am I the only one who wonders why the heck JSON needs to be YAML compliant? I'll put aside the fact that YAML looks insanely complicated and instead ask......
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Atif Aziz
azizatif
Jan 13, 2006 9:14 am
Dave, you're not the only one. I am assuming you're feeling lonely :-) because you may have missed my sentiments on the subject. I expressed the same concerns...
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jemptymethod
Jan 14, 2006 7:25 pm
... I don't think this is "an error in the ... spec" .... I can think of at least one other language that disallows unquoted reserved words as keys (Lua), and...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 17, 2006 7:26 pm
Unicode defines a set of character code points between U+0000 and U+10FFFF, organized into 17 planes of 64K each. 0 BMP Basic Multilingual Plane 1 SMP...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 17, 2006 7:31 pm
... Yes. The problem is that they allow comma as a thousands separator, so [1,999] produces a different result than [1, 999]....
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Walter Cruz
fox_jarod
Jan 18, 2006 2:41 pm
Hi all. I've read a lot of articles about JSON and I'm eager to use it ! I have read some examples on quircksmode, etc. Well, I'm using a json string in an...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 18, 2006 4:39 pm
... konqueror. But ... I think your problem is that you have linefeeds inside of your strings. ...
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Douglas Crockford
douglascrock...
Jan 18, 2006 8:07 pm
I have submitted a draft to IETF. You can see it here: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jsonorg-json-00.txt...
