On 4/11/07, Jon Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want structured data in this attribute, why not just use JSON?That's an idea that crossed my mind as well. I dismissed it for a few reasons: - authors would have to entitize quotes and ampersands in their attributes, which they're not used to doing with JSON normally. - evaluating it would mean: var obj = eval(myelement.getAttribute("_myjson");
How about defining an attribute that is the name of the js variable for use with that element? Then you can define the variable in a <script> tag, and use pure JSON cleanly. Kristof, JSON is in fact pretty much valid Python syntax too. It is a Javascript subset for decalarative structures designed to interoperate with many languages.
