Re: [apps-discuss] draft-saintandre-json-namespaces-00 comments

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 08 November 2011 19:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] draft-saintandre-json-namespaces-00 comments
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On 2011-11-08 20:20, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> On 08/11/2011, at 1:18 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:
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>> On 2011-11-08 20:10, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>>> I don't think URIs should be used for this.
>>> ...
>>
>> Well, one use case that the proposal is addressing is the transport of data from frameworks that *already* use URIs; such a WebDAV properties or JCR identifiers. In these cases you really have only the choice of using the identifiers you have, or establishing a completely new identifier system.
>>
>> And yes, it would be helpful if the draft was just saying that and not make the impression that it was solving the generic problem for JSON.
>
> Ah. I see that as almost an application-specific issue, nothing that should be standardised. Doing that would be leaving sharp tools around small children.
> ...

I think it's worthwhile to have a spec that says:

"If you're identifiers are XML names, then this how to use them in JSON. 
But if you don't have identifiers like these, don't *start* using them 
if you want to use JSON."

Which of course leaves the question open what to do instead :-) (and 
yes, I saw your proposal)

Best regards, Julian