JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by yaph » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML
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Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by namecast » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

From the department-of-redundancy-department....

The output syntax is even more glorious than you'd think:

http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:json="" rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> John Smith 21 2nd Street New York NY 10021 212 555-1111 212 555-2222 false 62.4 > 640

...and no, I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley.

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by kra34 » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

but where can you buy their complicator gloves?

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by laydros » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

I worked on the Datapower team soon after IBM acquired the product. Its a very cool device.

But I read the headline and threw up in my mouth a little.

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by duaneb » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:33 PM UTC

namecast wrote: post #2

From the department-of-redundancy-department.... The output syntax is even more glorious than you'd think: http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:json=" " rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> John Smith 21 2nd Street New York NY 10021 212 555-1111 212 555-2222 false 62.4 > 640 ...and no, I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirl…

I don't think JSONx is built for readability, so that actually seems like a very reasonable way to convert to XML.

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by laydros » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

duaneb wrote: post #5

namecast wrote: post #2

From the department-of-redundancy-department.... The output syntax is even more glorious than you'd think: http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:json=" " rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> John Smith 21 2nd Street New York NY 10021 212 555-1111 212 555-2222 false 62.4 > 640 ...and no, I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirl…

I don't think JSONx is built for readability, so that actually seems like a very reasonable way to convert to XML.

yeah, the point isn't so much to make it readable, but to allow you to write JSON (as a python dev I love the interoperability with JSON) and then use the capabilities of the DataPower to do stuff with it.

I expect many people were doing this by hand since JSON has replaced XML in a lot of peoples minds, and IBM has created a way to standardize it to make it easier to work with other teams.

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by xienze » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:36 PM UTC

namecast wrote: post #2

From the department-of-redundancy-department.... The output syntax is even more glorious than you'd think: http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:json=" " rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> John Smith 21 2nd Street New York NY 10021 212 555-1111 212 555-2222 false 62.4 > 640 ...and no, I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirl…

It would look a lot more reasonable if they had set the root namespace instead of leaving it separate and requiring every element to be prefixed.

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by easytiger » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:39 PM UTC

April Fools?

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by namecast » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

xienze wrote: post #7

namecast wrote: post #2

From the department-of-redundancy-department.... The output syntax is even more glorious than you'd think: http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi=" http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:json=" " rel="nofollow">http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> John Smith 21 2nd Street New York NY 10021 212 555-1111 212 555-2222 false 62.4 > 640 ...and no, I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirl…

It would look a lot more reasonable if they had set the root namespace instead of leaving it separate and requiring every element to be prefixed.

Yep. The rest of it is, well, xml, and it's not going to be as clean looking as json , but why do I need to see the word json at the start and stop of every element? It could at least be abbreviated to just 'j'?

On the plus side I bet the output gzip's up rather nicely in transit assuming you're HTTP GET'ting this data....

Re: JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

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Post by CamperBob2 » Tue, Sep 23, 2014, 5:42 PM UTC

kra34 wrote: post #3

but where can you buy their complicator gloves?

You get a free pair with every turboencabulator purchase.