Jason,

I tried it and it works for me. 

Thanks, Helen


On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Jason Hunter wrote:

> For people who want to produce *a specific JSON* and are willing to craft an 
> XML document as appropriate to accomplish that, there's a library in commons 
> that I wrote for our use in MarkMail:
> 
> http://developer.marklogic.com/svn/commons/trunk/json/
> 
> Or actually here's its new and proper home on github:
> 
> http://github.com/marklogic/commons/tree/master/json/
> http://github.com/marklogic/commons/raw/master/json/json.xqy
> 
> The documentation is in xqdoc format within the file.  The idea is you decide 
> what JSON you want to produce, then you create an XML document following the 
> simple rules of the library, and the library does the serialization from XML 
> to JSON for you.
> 
> MarkMail uses this for Ajax-based updating of page contents.  Click on a 
> facet, see the results update.  The client can get the updated data in XML or 
> JSON format.
> 
> http://markmail.org/results.xqy?q=json&mode=xml
> http://markmail.org/results.xqy?q=json&mode=json
> 
> -jh-
> 
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 9:40 AM, Lee, David wrote:
> 
>> Great Question.  (awaiting answer from the experts)
>> One thing to consider is that there is *no standard mapping from XML to JSON*
>> So whatever ML may or may not provide its unlikely to do what you think it 
>> should.
>>  
>> Thats not to say that you cant convert specific XML to specific JSON but 
>> there is no generalized agreed on way to do it.
>>  
>> Simple example (it gets WAY worse).
>> convert
>>                 <element attr="foo">bar</element>
>>  
>> To JSON
>>  
>> Pick a way
>> Pick another.
>> which is better ? which is "right" ?
>> Now add
>>  
>> <element attr="foo">bar<spam bold="true">bletch</spam>more text  
>> <empty/></element>
>>  
>> Did the way you first pick work for this too ?
>>  
>>  
>>  
>>  
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of helen chen
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 12:32 PM
>> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
>> Subject: [MarkLogic Dev General] question about json in marklogic 4
>>  
>> Does marklogic 4 has API that can convert xml node to json format string? 
>>  
>> I tried xdmp:to-json() function, it seems that it only wrap the xml node 
>> with double quote, didn't convert the xml node to json format.
>>  
>> like:
>> let $a := <a><b>test</b></a>
>> return xdmp:to-json($a)
>>  
>> I got result   "<a><b>test</b></a>"
>>  
>>  
>> Did I miss anything? Or does that mean I have to convert the xml to a xquery 
>> map and then call the function?
>>  
>> Helen
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