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Maybe something more like: [ "div", [ "The ", [ "a", { "href": "https://www.json.or

Maybe something more like: [ "div", [ "The ", [ "a", { "href": "https://www.json.org/" }, [ "JSON format" ] ], " was invented by ", [ "em", "Douglas Crockford" ], "." ] ] With all children being encapsulated in an array... edit: though it again gets confusing when the 0 index is sometimes the element type and sometimes the straight text... so never mind I guess the problem persists.

nkrisc 7y ago
How would you ever differentiate "div" from an element or text? Is "The " text or the <The > tag?
arethuza 7y ago
Why not just: [ "div", "The ", [ "a", { "href": "https://www.json.org/" https://www.json.org/" }, "JSON format" ], " was invented by ", [ "em", "Douglas Crockford" ], "." ] First thing in array is element, if there is an object at the second location then that's the attributes?
- 52-6F-62 7y ago
  Yeah that seems to make the most sense. I had to actually work it out before I saw it. I was looking for some further separation beyond indices but I just ended up over-thinking it.
fnordsensei 7y ago
That's is roughly how it's done in Reagent[1]/re-frame[2]: [:div "The" [:a {:href "https://www.json.org/"} "JSON format"] " was invented by " [:em "Douglas Crockford"] "."] The fact that EDN[3] supports keywords makes it a bit easier to parse. Representing HTML in EDN this way was first done in a library called Hiccup[4], so it’s usually called “Hiccup” even when encountered outside of the original library. 1: https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/ https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/ 2: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame https://github.com/Day8/re-frame 3: https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn 4: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup

nkrisc 7y ago

How would you ever differentiate "div" from an element or text? Is "The " text or the <The > tag?

arethuza 7y ago

Why not just: [ "div", "The ", [ "a", { "href": "https://www.json.org/" https://www.json.org/" }, "JSON format" ], " was invented by ", [ "em", "Douglas Crockford" ], "." ] First thing in array is element, if there is an object at the second location then that's the attributes?

52-6F-62 7y ago
Yeah that seems to make the most sense. I had to actually work it out before I saw it. I was looking for some further separation beyond indices but I just ended up over-thinking it.

fnordsensei 7y ago

That's is roughly how it's done in Reagent[1]/re-frame[2]: [:div "The" [:a {:href "https://www.json.org/"} "JSON format"] " was invented by " [:em "Douglas Crockford"] "."] The fact that EDN[3] supports keywords makes it a bit easier to parse. Representing HTML in EDN this way was first done in a library called Hiccup[4], so it’s usually called “Hiccup” even when encountered outside of the original library. 1: https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/ https://holmsand.github.io/reagent/ 2: https://github.com/Day8/re-frame https://github.com/Day8/re-frame 3: https://github.com/edn-format/edn https://github.com/edn-format/edn 4: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup