On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Ron Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> reason to embed JSON into XML or HTML. If Javascript can be embedded > in a webpage, why not JSON? > As a point of trivia: the JSON grammar allows, but does not require, that forward-slash characters be escaped by a backslash. The reason for this IS the embedding in HTML (Doug Crockford responded to my query about the reason for escaping /). If you have <\/...> in JSON inside HTML, it doesn't confuse the HTML page like non-escaping it does. > FYI, where I work, we are required to code defensively, so I have > acquired a tendancy to look for problems so I can better defend > against them. Nothing's perfect, of course. > i'd never heard of this particular problem until today. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/
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