Re: [Json] Proposed rechartering for the JSON WG

Me too.

I was asking if schema was in scope. I have no particular interest in
having a committee redesign a tool that works perfectly well as it is.

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> +1
>
> I'd be more comfortable if the charter were more explicit about this;
> e.g., "A set of natural-language terms and/or phrases for use in future
> specifications that use JSON. This explicitly excludes schema languages and
> similar formalisms."
>
>
> On 8 Feb 2014, at 12:14 pm, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
>
> > I really want to stay away from the slippery schema slope. So I do not
> think we're trying to be ABNF for JSON, because that is in fact a simple
> lexical schema.  In a spec sentence like this:
> >
> > The value of the "size" member of the top level "buffer" item MUST be a
> non-negative integer.
> >
> > I think nomenclature means having a uniform standardised way to express
> the meaning of the words between "value of" and "MUST".  Perhaps something
> like XPath for JSON.
> >
> > Disclosure: I'm not convinced this is necessary or even useful.
> >
> > On 7 Feb 2014 20:03, "Nico Williams" <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> > >> On 7 Feb 2014 17:54, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <hallam@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> > Does a 'standardized nomenclature for JSON' mean formal languages
> are in
> > >> > or out of scope?
> > >>
> > >> Don't know what you mean by Formal Languages in this context, but
> schemas
> > >> are clearly out of scope.
> > >
> > > By formal language I mean a machine readable description of the data
> > > structure that specifies the tag names and the set of corresponding
> values.
> >
> > That's schema.  One (or more) schema representations for JSON would be
> > nice, yes.
> >
> > Note that ABNF is a formal language, but not what you're after, which
> > is why I would have asked the question Tim asked.
> >
> > Nico
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