Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 12 March 2014 04:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Json] Proposal: JSON text sequence MIME type and Proposed Standard
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> Yeah, the options are:
>
> 1. zero or more whitespace characters

Not an option for values where that would result in ambiguity.  (E.g.,
two top-level numeric values in a row.)

> 2. 1 or more whitespace characters
> 3. A specific required set of whitespace characters, for example \s*\n\s* or
> just \n

Given that there's no such thing as an empty JSON text, clearly any
number of JSON text separators is logically the same as one.  That
makes (2) and (3) OK.

jq allows any whitespace to separate JSON texts in input sequences,
but it always uses \n to separate texts when outputting JSON text
sequences.  So I'm inclined to go for (2).

Nico
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