Right, learn was probably a strong word. Just meant that I'd never used it before.
Is there an automated was to convert the XML to JSON with AS3? -- Matt Perkins ----------------- http://www.nudoru.com On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:12 PM, Taka Kojima <t...@gigafied.com> wrote: > There isn't really anything such as "learning JSON", JSON is basically just > an object, and is your best bet. > > You can convert an XML string to JSON, store it, and then when you need it > reconvert it to XML if you really need to, but unless you're doing things > with E4X that is probably unnecessary. > > There are several libraries for a number of different languages to work with > JSON, a lot of languages have the functionality built in, for AS3 you can > use the as3 core lib or you can use this: > > http://www.thanksmister.com/index.php/archive/json-lite/ > > > Taka > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matt Perkins <nudoru.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Wondering if someone has had this problem and found a good solution ... >> >> I've developed a social simulation that has a lot of data that i need to >> save between user sessions in the suspend_data SCORM variable to our LMS. >> I'm formatting this data as XML since 1, has a good structure and 2, i know >> it. Suspend_data only has 4k of space and my XML (as a string) is pretty big >> - doubly so since the LMS encodes it and all of the single char <, > and /'s >> get turned into 4 chars. But i've used attributes and 1-2 char tag names >> where i can. >> >> I'm going to try to compress the string with ByteArray and see if that >> helps, but I'm not sure if the "special characters" will mess with the LMS >> communication - I've had that happen many times before with just HTML page >> text. >> >> Other option is to learn JSON and do it that way. >> >> Have anyone else faced something like this and solved it? >> >> -- >> Matt Perkins >> -------------------- >> http://www.nudoru.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Flashcoders mailing list >> Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com >> http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders >> > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
