<trackbot> Date: 10 September 2014

JSON representation

Steven: I got a comment from someone about edge cases in the JSON transformation
... {v:null}
... which comes out as
... <v type="null""/>
... {v:""}

<v> </v>

scribe: <v></v>
... assume <json><json> around these
... {v:[]}
... <v type="array"></v>
... {v:[""]}
... <v type="array"></v>
... {v:{}}
... the last one is not covered in the spec.
... I can see two ways to solve
... one is to mark empty arrays and objects with an attribute
... (this is only so that when you export it again as json, you know how to write it)
... there is nothing essential to internal processing
... the other solution is to mark texts with a type.
... Numbers are already marked with a type, to distinguish them from texts
... eg {a: "1"; b: 2}
... <a>1</a><b type="number">1</b>
... if we introduce a type="text" (or "string" doesn't matter)
... then you can distinguish between an empty array and an array with one element of an empty string.

Alain: I like type="text"
... I would like to mark empty arrays

Steven: The problem with that is if the element gets updated, and is no longer empty, it still has the attribute...
... so you can't rely on that attribute.

<scribe> ACTION: Steven to update JSON algorithm [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/09/10-forms-minutes.html#action01]

<trackbot> Created ACTION-1977 - Update json algorithm [on Steven Pemberton - due 2014-09-17].

Progress, and Generating Spec from the wiki

http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/forms/WD-xforms20-20140702/Overview.html

http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/forms/WD-xforms-xpath-20140702/Overview.html

Erik: No progress on my part yet.

Steven: I hope by next week we'll have some comments in, anyway.

AOB

Alain: None.

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