I have an XSLT file that will convert generic XML to JSON according to the specs at http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/json.html - you only need to specify which elements can occur more than once in the file. It also handles JSON-IN-SCRIPT with a callback parameter.
This would work great for KML - but would fail on KMZ. Using something like this, it's pretty easy for the KML owner to provide the JSON feed natively. If you'd like it, I'll post it publicly. I use it in a variety of projects. Chad Killingsworth On Jul 14, 2:00 pm, Garthan <lancealand...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jul 14, 6:15 am, bratliff <bratl...@umich.edu> wrote: > > > On Jul 14, 12:13 am, Ben Appleton <apple...@google.com> wrote: > > > > No plans at this point. How would JSON would be any more useful than raw > > > KML? Afterall you can load the KML directly into the browser, parsing and > > > modifying it as you wish. What JSON schema would we use? > > > It would eliminate the proxy requirement. > > And that is a pretty direct boon I have a basic php proxy that I let > people snag > associated with my geoxml parser but its a pain for plenty of folk. > > JSON is a much more compact > > > format than KML / XML. > > well not alot more compact intrinsically but it generally is a little > more compact even without too much work (the tag sizes are smaller but > they normally compress well due to duplication so the size gain is > smaller sometimes than it might seem .... but yes it is real. > > It is directly executable. It does not > > > require a separate parsing step. > > Good particularly on that old dog IE whose xml parsing and handling > sucks. > > Extraneous elements could be > > > ignored. > > I like json to contain the folder information too and for me the > structure > of the kml isn't extraneous it conveys meaning about the data... its > one feature > kml has over GML in fact the groupings of things can be very > significant > > In general I agree lots of great features and most are the normal ones > associated with JSON -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps JavaScript API v3" group. To post to this group, send email to google-maps-js-api...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-maps-js-api-v3+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3?hl=en.
