Slightly off topic, but for folks more accustomed to playing around with
YAML for serialization, uncommented JSON is apparently a proper subset of
YAML.

http://redhanded.hobix.com/inspect/yamlIsJson.html

Cheers,
Pius

On 12/13/06, Ben Hyde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Edward Summers wrote:
> Don't the keys need to be quoted? And why are forward slashes escaped
> with backslashes inside strings?

Json[1] is stricter than Javascript object literals.  And the
installed base of javascript is yet more generous.  So that often
accept; unquoted keys in objects, extra escapes in strings, and
trailing commas in object key/value pairs.  There is a lot of
pressure on a implementer of a json reader to relax.  So you all may
find toggles to enable various kinds of generosity.  Something to be
said for setting a good strict example though.

[1] http://www.json.org/
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/formal/parser-grammar.html
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