Re: XML Redux

Kurt Cagle scripsit:

> That could work too. However, I'm just thinking of the use case
> {"button-label":"<<< Previous <<<"}.

That is a quoted string, ergo not an XML element.

> "xml(<test>This is a test.</test>)" is both less ambiguous and far less
> likely to occur as part of a random JSON expression.

I'm not sure whether those quotation marks are metalanguage or not.
If they are part of the syntax, then yes, you have a problem; stuff
in quotes should always be a literal string.  Otherwise, there is no
possibility of confusion between these:

  {"foo": "<bar/>"}    -- value is a string; JSON or JAXON
  {"foo": <bar/>}      -- value is an XML element; JAXON only

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