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Michael Kay wrote: >>> There is no standard or even 'community accepted' way of >>> >> serializing XDM >> > > >> What is wrong with JSON for this? >> > > Nearly everything, starting with the fact that the target user community is > likely to want something that can be manipulated using XML tools. > I think this may be shifting the goal post. The JSON can be reimported into the XDM-aware tools. Non-XDM tools will need extra programming to cope with the unknown semantics and type annotation information in the XDM-in-XML dump in any case. > In fact, what is right with JSON for this? > It has sequences (arrays) which was the problem being complained of. It can be exported into XDM and imported back, with minimal conventions. It has explicit types. >> The XPath2 data model is a system for *converting* XML into >> programming language types, or for operating on a kind of XSD >> PSVI. >> > > That's not how I would define it (and it's not how the spec defines it). In > fact, I don't really see where conversion into "programming language types" > comes into it at all. > s/system for/part of a system for/ XML Infoset != XDM. Therefore a conversion is needed. Hence XSD and XSLT2 (not exhausting all their serried splendours by saying they are limited to this conversion.) Cheers Rick
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