xmas feature wishes ;-)

> will there be a JSONiq package under the tree (or anytime soon)?

> Hi Max, > > > will there be a JSONiq package under the tree (or anytime soon)? > > I’m afraid it won’t be part of this year’s release, unless anyone in > our team gety very very busy within the next few days… > From a conceptual perspective, there are some features within JSONiq > that compete with our current and the official XQ30 implementation, > such as the way how maps are represented internally. However, it’s > good to know that JSONiq is a requested feature, and I agree it’s > quite a promising approach for both the XML and JSON communities. >

> Maybe we’ll provide a more flexible JSON parsing/serialization concept > in BaseX in near future? JsonML, while somewhat standardized, has > turned out not to be very well readable. I remember one link you > mentioned some time ago, which lists various approaches to serialize > XML to JSON [1]. Next, other XQuery processors provide their own, > custom solutions (eg [2,3,4]). We could extend our output options to > support more than the two existing serializers, eg as follows.. > > declare option output:method "json"; > declare option output:version "gdata"; > <xml>hi there</xml> > > ..and use our own parser/serializer as default. >

> > What do, or everyone else, think? > Christian > > [1] > http://onwebdevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/05/converting-xml-to-json.html > [2] http://xqilla.sourceforge.net/ExtensionFunctions > [3] http://www.zorba-xquery.com/html/modules/zorba/data-converters/json > [4] http://atomic.exist-db.org/blogs/eXist/JSONSerializer >