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RE: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XMLexperiment

• From: David Lee <dlee@c...>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@s...>, David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
• Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 23:41:54 +0000

> From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@s...] 
> Indeed, I've never found a use case for xsi:nil.

I stumbled on one ... 
In an <unnamed> XML to JSON conversion implementation, if you have an empty XML element with xsi:nil 
it will be translated to a JSON null  making the distinction between "" and null possible and reliable.
Sometimes that's a useful thing to the reader of the JSON.

-David

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David A. Lee
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http://www.xmlsh.org

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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Uche Ogbuji <uche@o...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
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  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@g...>
  • Re: [OT] Re: Lessons learned from the XML experiment
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>