Re: [Geojson] Question regarding RFC 7946

["V. Kelly Bellis" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Erik,

That's priceless! Thank you so much for the link 
<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454>; 
I will treasure it always :)

Sorry my post was too long; I thought I was writing to GeoJASON support; 
not a mailing list.

Mr. Ince's Bruegelesque picture of regex wrestling with HTML aside, as a 
non-programmer and somebody who has never looked at a JSON file before, 
much less a JSON parser, I had no idea what I was walking into when 
thinking that it might be nice to see the OWM city ID list spatially 
displayed in Global Mapper.

I've written to Pavel Zuykov asking if the OWM city ID list could be 
exported as a .kml file from their 'geocoder database' (Pavel's words), 
the same which produced the original .json file

Many thanks to you and to Martin for your kind replies.

Kelly


On 3/18/2019 5:28 AM, Erik Wilde wrote:
> hello.
>
> On 2019-03-18 10:06, Martin Daly wrote:
>> You have no “FeatureCollection” object, and therefore no “features” 
>> array. Your “properties” object does not have commas between 
>> consecutive key/value pairs. That’s two problems to be going on with.
>>
>> You can use jsonlint.com and geojsonlint.com to check your output, 
>> which may give clearer errors than you have been getting.
>
> tl;dr: always pick the right tool for the job.
>
> martin is kind of right, but i think he's not going far enough. these 
> JSON problems tell you that it's not such a great idea to edit JSON 
> via regexes. to understand why, here's is the greatest answer ever 
> about why regex as a tool is limited in its applicability to complex 
> data:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454 
>
>
> i'd highly recommend to parse the JSON using a JSON parser of your 
> choice (you'll find one in any programming language), do your 
> transformation magic on the parse tree, and then serialize the result.
>
> you will find this to be much more robust, extensible, and 
> predictable, even though it may seem like a bit of overkill in the 
> beginning.
>
> cheers,
>
> dret.
>
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