Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard

Sean Gillies <sean.gillies@gmail.com> Wed, 12 March 2014 15:28 UTC

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the options are:
>>
>> 1. zero or more whitespace characters
>> 2. 1 or more whitespace characters
>> 3. A specific required set of whitespace characters, for example \s*\n\s*
>> or just \n
>>
>
> or
>
> 4. use the JSON separator character, the comma
>

I've thought about multi-text documents in the past and RFC 1521 Multipart
immediately came to mind.

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1521#page-29

Couldn't a pair of hyphens be a fifth option?

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Sean Gillies