On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Norman Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using JSON referencing in couchdb and the input is XML (which I > am turning into JSON). > > An immediate problem is that by taking a JSON object out of CouchDB is > that you don't know the name of the corresponding XML root element. > > e.g. "RootName" : {"$ref" : "123"}, where document corresponding > object to "123" contains the child elements of RootName. > > Using private CouchDB JSON notation, similar to _id, _rev, I would > like to use _parent to specify the parent root name. > > Is this safe, is there a list of reserved words in couchdb? >
All top-level keys starting with _underscore are reserved. > thanks, > > Norman > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
