Re: XSLT functions for JSON

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 12:55:42PM -0600, M. David Peterson wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2008 12:47:12 -0600, Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >Again, the best that could be done is to follow the rules laid out by
> >org.json
> 
> Right, but is the conversion itself even necessary to be enabled to  
> traverse the array/sequence via XPath 2.0/XSLT 2.0?

In principle, an XPath 2.0 implementation (including XQuery or
XSLT) could present a JSON file as an instance of the XPath etc etc
Data Model and it could be queried directly.

I don't know if there are systems that do this in practice;
it doesn't sound terribly useful to me, since I see JSON as for
Web server -> Web Browser communication over HTTP, primarily for
use with JavaScript, and if you wanted interoperability with
XSLT you'd send XML instead.

Liam

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