Robin Haswell wrote:
> Michael Peters wrote:
>
>>
>> Robin Haswell wrote:
>>
>>> Hm I may be mistaken. AFAIU JSON is a JS-compatible serialization form?
>>> Do browsers have built-in JSON deserializers?
>>
>>
>> Well, they'd have to if they have JS interpreters right?
>>
>
>
> Um no, I mean can you convert a JSON object into a memory construct
> without parsing it with Javascript code. Hence, is there a built-in JSON
> deserializer (that isn't written in JavaScript).
Isn't that what eval() is?
> As far as I am aware,
> JSON isn't part of the javascript language specification.
Well, it's not called JSON, but it is a part of the spec.
eval( "{foo: 123, bar: 456}" );
As far as comparing it to XML -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Comparison_to_XML_and_other_markup_languages
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Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP
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