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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 ele

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....

wereHamster 12y ago
Replace `xmlns:json="http://...` http://...` with `xmlns:j="http://...` http://...`.
- moron4hire 12y ago
  Actually, just remove the colon and the prefix entirely. It becomes surprisingly readable: <object xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> <string name="name">John Smith</string> <object name="address"> <string name="streetAddress">21 2nd Street</string> <string name="city">New York</string> <string name="state">NY</string> <number name="postalCode">10021</number> </object> <array name="phoneNumbers"> <string>212 555-1111</string> <string>212 555-2222</string> </array> <null name="additionalInfo" /> <boolean name="remote">false</boolean> <number name="height">62.4</number> <string name="ficoScore"> > 640</string> </object>
masklinn 12y ago
> On the plus side I bet the output gzip's up rather nicely in transit assuming you're HTTP GET'ting this data.... The XML is 901 bytes, gzip yields 401 (44.5%) Of course the original JSON is 303 bytes and JSON is already pretty compressible, to 215 bytes (71%) in this case.
xienze 12y ago
> but why do I need to see the word json at the start and stop of every element? Because of what I just mentioned. If they had set the root namespace directly you wouldn't have to declare the namespace prefix on every element.
- colanderman 12y ago
  I don't know why you were downvoted. Setting the root namespace provides exactly the effect of dropping "json:" from everything.

wereHamster 12y ago

Replace `xmlns:json="http://...` http://...` with `xmlns:j="http://...` http://...`.

moron4hire 12y ago
Actually, just remove the colon and the prefix entirely. It becomes surprisingly readable: <object xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.datapower.com/schemas/json jsonx.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/2009/jsonx"> <string name="name">John Smith</string> <object name="address"> <string name="streetAddress">21 2nd Street</string> <string name="city">New York</string> <string name="state">NY</string> <number name="postalCode">10021</number> </object> <array name="phoneNumbers"> <string>212 555-1111</string> <string>212 555-2222</string> </array> <null name="additionalInfo" /> <boolean name="remote">false</boolean> <number name="height">62.4</number> <string name="ficoScore"> > 640</string> </object>

masklinn 12y ago

> On the plus side I bet the output gzip's up rather nicely in transit assuming you're HTTP GET'ting this data.... The XML is 901 bytes, gzip yields 401 (44.5%) Of course the original JSON is 303 bytes and JSON is already pretty compressible, to 215 bytes (71%) in this case.

xienze 12y ago

> but why do I need to see the word json at the start and stop of every element? Because of what I just mentioned. If they had set the root namespace directly you wouldn't have to declare the namespace prefix on every element.

colanderman 12y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted. Setting the root namespace provides exactly the effect of dropping "json:" from everything.