Re: [Json] Schemas & so on

John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 03 May 2016 18:11 UTC

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Erik Wilde scripsit:

> when it comes to datatypes and how values are being used, things get
> complicated relatively quickly. for example, even if you allow
> 0..255 as the datatype for a member, would it still be permissible
> to use "0000000000000042" as its value? it depends, right?

Of course it would be permissible.  42 is 00000000042 is 42.00000.

> this is the part where XSD took a deep dive (making it complex but
> powerful) and separated the lexical space and the value space:

I agree that this has to be done, but I think that JSON is simple enough
that the mapping is self-evident.

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