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Re: [Json] Proposed document set from this WG

Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> Wed, 20 February 2013 17:00 UTC

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From: Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposed document set from this WG
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On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
[...]
>>
>> 15.12.1.2: JSONText can be any value, not just object or array.  I think
>> this would be a positive change for 4627bis, perhaps with a note that
>> older processors are likely to reject any top level that is not an object
>> or array.
>
>
> Eeek, that scares me.  That is a huge liberalization; there’s a lot of code
> out there that assumes that when you parse JSON you get a hash.
>

Well, RFC 4627 also "allows" arrays as JSON texts...

I agree about any JSON value being possible. In practice, there are a
lot of parsers which don't obey RFC 4627 in that they do parse any
JSON value whereas they shouldn't...

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