On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Riyafa Abdul Hameed <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am attempting to create a doc on the JSONiq data model for objects[1] (It > might be full of errors because I am doing the calculations manually). > > This is what I have come up on the data model for objects: > > The first byte would have the value tag, followed by the id (4 bytes) of > the object. Then 4 bytes to represent the size of the object. Then another > four bytes to represent the number of key-value pairs. Next few bytes > represent the offsets of keys which follow (each offset is represented by 4 > bytes). Ids would be assigned to the keys. Next few bytes would be a sorted > list of ids for keys in alphabetical order. The following bytes would > represent the keys in the object.Each key is a StringPointable followed by > the id of the key. Each object would have a sequence pointable: the > following bytes would be the number of Items (items are the values for > keys) in the sequence. The next bytes would be the offset of each item in > the sequence. The last bytes would be the values for each key followed by > the respective id of the key. > > Hope it makes sense. > > My problem is, > > I have not provided for the white spaces in the object. What can I use to > represent the white spaces? I cannot use a text node because object is not > a node. >
The XML data model defines how to utilize white space. I don't believe JSON has the same idea. I think we can print the JSON object in a standard fashion and do not need to track white space in the object definition. > > [1] > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-wT0pE8rTTNIzuY4iTgvhqkdHmKGek4CgNthXN6mlm0 > > Thank you. > > Yours sincerely, > Riyafa > > > On 26 April 2016 at 10:29, Preston Carman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We have two students working with us this summer through GSOC to complete >> JSONiq specification for arrays and objects. I think the first step is to >> define the data model used by JSONiq. The definition should be defined in >> our wiki [1] before coding starts this summer. The wiki will allow the >> community to discuss the JSON data model implementation in VXQuery. >> >> I updated the JSONiq wiki to help get the documentation started. Please >> fill in the JSON data model based on the examples seen on our website >> (links on the wiki page). >> >> Post here if you have any questions. >> >> [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VXQUERY/JSONiq >> > > > > -- > Riyafa Abdul Hameed > Undergraduate, University of Moratuwa > > Email: [email protected] > Website: https://riyafa.wordpress.com/ <http://riyafa.wordpress.com/> > <http://facebook.com/riyafa.ahf> <http://lk.linkedin.com/in/riyafa> > <http://twitter.com/Riyafa1>
