Re: [apps-discuss] draft-pbryan-zyp-json-pointer: name syntax for non-ASCII

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 23 November 2011 09:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-pbryan-zyp-json-pointer: name syntax for non-ASCII
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On 2011-11-23 00:17, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> So yes, the fact that a JSON name can be anything a JSON string can take is
>> indeed a problem, because it doesn't leave us any characters as delimiters
>> (so this is very different from XML vs XPath).
>
> Maybe you could use a JSON string notation as your canonical form:
>
> { "Bjørn/Carsten/foo \uD834\uDD1E" : "Fritz" }
> ->
> "/\"Bjørn/Carsten/foo \uD834\uDD1E\""

I like that.

Best regards, Julian