[Json] serializing sequences of JSON values

Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> Sun, 09 March 2014 04:27 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
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>  This means the serializer would have to be explicitly told whether to insert space before or after
> writing out data.  

If you want to write out a sequence of JSON values you would write them out as an array with [] around and comma separators.