JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML

Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by laydros on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:36PM (#8356690)

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.

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Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by masklinn on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @02:16PM (#8357051)

That doesn't make this mess any saner, if the point was to apply XML tools to JSON, why not convert to an existing XML dialect with equivalent expressive power, e.g. XMLRPC's serialisation format (which provides a strict superset of JSON capabilities (if you include the nil extension))?

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Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by duaneb on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:11PM (#8357485)

The obvious problem being that you might not have control over the source of the data. JSONx means you can apply xml tools to json sources, period.

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Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by masklinn on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @04:01AM (#8360343)

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. The source of the data is irrelevant, XMLRPC w/ nil (and other pre-existing formats I'm sure) are strict supersets of JSON, any JSON document can be converted back and forth between XMLRPC and JSON without data loss. So XMLRPC (or something else with similar capabilities) would give you exactly the same ability to apply XML tools to "JSON sources".

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