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Re: [mmox] XML serialization

Jon Watte <jwatte@gmail.com> Mon, 23 February 2009 20:56 UTC

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Catherine Pfeffer wrote:
> <llsd>
>    <map>
>       <entry>
>         <key>success</key>
>         <boolean>true</boolean>
>       </entry>
>       <entry>
>         <key>something_i_like_to_eat_on_sundays</key>
>         <string>bananas</string>
>        </entry>
>    </map>
> </llsd>

A better way is

<map>
  <value type="boolean" key="success>true</value>
  <value type="string" 
key="something_i_like_to_eat_on_sundays">bananas</value>
</map>

natural way to express it.This has less of the angle bracket tax, and it 
has a VERY straight-forward parsing style. In fact, in my opinion it's 
the most In XPath, it's now trivial: "value[@key=success]"


I'm working on a list of the things I think are wrong with the current 
proposal, of which this is one thing (there are about six). If we're 
open to change on those things (including this), then I could get behind 
the LLSD. Stay tuned :-)

Sincerely,

jw

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