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Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Thu, 05 June 2014 23:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Using a non-whitespace separator (Re: Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-json-text-sequence)
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Paul Hoffman scripsit:

>    1.  Remove internal newlines (not including escaped newlines in
>        strings) from any JSON text being written.

It would be clearer to say "internal non-significant newlines".

>    2.  Prefix any JSON text with a null value and a newline.  The append
>        write must still be atomic (one write), and contain both texts.
> 
> With the change to something like RS, neither of those would be
> required, right?

Correct, but with other problems around data entry and display.

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