Re: [Json] WGLC comment regarding top-level values

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Fri, 11 October 2013 20:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] WGLC comment regarding top-level values
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Disagree. I think this is adequately covered in the “Specifications of JSON
section”


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>wrote:

> Add this to the ABNF in section 2:
>
>    A JSON-text in ECMAScript's version of JSON is any value, with
> optional whitespace.  Note that this is not the form that is intended
> in application/json; parsers of JSON texts -in the context of the
> application/json MIME media type- are free (and expected) to reject
> JSON texts that are not objects or arrays.
>
>       JSON-text-ECMA = ws value ws
>
> Nico
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