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Re: Asking for recommendations of xml 2 json open sourceprojec

• From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:04:03 +0000

On 24/01/2023 02:28, John Cowan wrote:

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 8:05 AM Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie > wrote:

How does it deal with XML-->JSON for deep mixed content? I have TEI
documents with analytic markup, on which the publisher's rendering
and the user's linguistic or semantic analysis depends, nested up
to 10 levels deep. I am under pressure from some quarters to "make
the markup simpler" by using JSON.

Sure, it's straightforward. Each XML element is a JSON array whose
first element is the element name as a JSON string, whose second
element is the attribute mapping as a JSON object, and whose
remaining elements are the content as JSON strings or arrays. The
attribute mapping can be omitted if it is empty.

Thus:

<foo/> => ["foo"]

<foo bar="baz" zam="quux"/> => ["foo", {"bar":"baz", "zam":"quux"}]

<foo>32 <dog/></foo> => ["foo", "32 ", "["dog"]]

<foo bar="baz"><dog zam="quux"/> => ["foo", {"bar":"baz"}, ["dog"",
{"zam":"quux"}]]

• References:
  • Re: Asking for recommendations of xml 2 json open source projects
    • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>
  • Re: Asking for recommendations of xml 2 json open sourceprojects
    • From: Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>
  • Re: Asking for recommendations of xml 2 json open source projects
    • From: John Cowan <johnwcowan@gmail.com>