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Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by xienze on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:51PM (#8356811)
> 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.

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Re:JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML by colanderman on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @03:38PM (#8357661)
I don't know why you were downvoted. Setting the root namespace provides exactly the effect of dropping "json:" from everything.
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