Hello, I've been playing with BaseX lately and all-in-all am very impressed. Something I'm wrestling with however is the JSON output options. I've got various web applications that would really be simplified by receiving JSON straight away for the obvious scripting benefits.
The JSON method has been giving me a lot of grief, stipulating rules I'm not sure how to follow. right now I have an element that "is typed as string and cannot be nested."
I've been able to get JSONML to output but the JSON is this morass of nested Arrays... Attributes seem to get transformed into Objects but elements/tags and their values are pushed into Arrays for some rationale - which I suppose is on purpose.
My question is how can I get Objects for simple key:value properties from <tag>value</tag> 's. Are there options I'm not utilizing? Would it be feasible to transform the XML output to some middle form first - setting it up to become Objects, before serializing it to JSON?
Thanks! Zach Pride Associate Software Engineer
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On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 17:40 +0000, Zachary Pride wrote:
I've been able to get JSONML to output but the JSON is this morass of nested Arrays... Attributes seem to get transformed into Objects but elements/tags and their values are pushed into Arrays for some rationale - which I suppose is on purpose.
In XML, the order of elements is significant. Consider the paragraphs in a chapter of a book, for example :-)
I'll have to let others answer about generating JSON with BaseX, although another option is to write a function yourself to do it, and generate text that happens to be JSON.
Liam
True, I realize the structure of XML is a topic in and of itself as far as IA is concerned. What I'm wondering is how I can get my XML into key: values JavaScript Objects.
I think a good example of the kind of serialization/output I'm looking for is how the translation works on this site: http://www.utilities-online.info/xmltojson/#.UQqMi_JyGSo
I realize JSONML is a separate concept intending to provide lossless conversion between XML and JSON. In my situation I'm not concerned with multiple translations and communications. I want simple, quick access to my data without the need for looping and inspecting Arrays. From what I can tell from the BaseX documentation it's possible to get this form, I'd just like to know what I need to set to get the JSON I want.
Thanks! Zach Pride Associate Software Engineer
Ultra Electronics, ProLogic 1000 Green River Drive, Ste. 201 Fairmont, WV 26554
zachary.pride@ultra-prologic.com Tel: +1 304 333 2680 ext.308
www.ultra-prologic.com
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Hi Zachary,
there are numerous JSON uni- and bidirectional JSON-XML converters out there, all of which have certain flaws (see e.g. [1]). We have implemented JSONML for creating JSON outputs from arbitrary XML documents, but we are not particularly satisfied with it. A short time ago, I proposed to add some more JSON converters to our converter family on this list [2]; feel free to continue this discussion.
Best, Christian
[1] http://onwebdevelopment.blogspot.de/2008/05/converting-xml-to-json.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/basex-talk@mailman.uni-konstanz.de/msg01863.html
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Zachary Pride Zachary.Pride@ultra-prologic.com wrote:
True, I realize the structure of XML is a topic in and of itself as far as IA is concerned. What I'm wondering is how I can get my XML into key: values JavaScript Objects.
I think a good example of the kind of serialization/output I'm looking for is how the translation works on this site: http://www.utilities-online.info/xmltojson/#.UQqMi_JyGSo
I realize JSONML is a separate concept intending to provide lossless conversion between XML and JSON. In my situation I'm not concerned with multiple translations and communications. I want simple, quick access to my data without the need for looping and inspecting Arrays. From what I can tell from the BaseX documentation it's possible to get this form, I'd just like to know what I need to set to get the JSON I want.
Thanks! Zach Pride Associate Software Engineer
Ultra Electronics, ProLogic 1000 Green River Drive, Ste. 201 Fairmont, WV 26554
zachary.pride@ultra-prologic.com Tel: +1 304 333 2680 ext.308
www.ultra-prologic.com
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