Re: xml:lang in JSON results format

Hi Lee,

Many thanks for your response, I thought it was probably too late.

Cheers,

Alistair.

Lee Feigenbaum wrote:
> Alistair Miles wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > I'm sure you must have talked about this already, but I searched the
>  > groups lists and couldn't find anything.
>  >
>  > Comment on:
>  > 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/NOTE-rdf-sparql-json-res-20070618/#variable-binding-results 
> 
>  >
>  >
>  > """
>  > RDF Literal S with language L
>  >
>  >     XML: <binding><literal xml:lang=" L "> S </literal><binding>
>  >
>  >     JSON: "name" : {"type":"literal", "xml:lang":" L ", "value":" S"}
>  > """
>  >
>  > Please can it be...
>  >
>  >     JSON: "name" : {"type":"literal", "lang":" L ", "value":" S"}
>  >
>  > .. instead. It's a matter of convenience, but I'd like to be able to use
>  > the dot operator to access the language tag in a plain literal variable
>  > binding. Having to do binding["xml:lang"] is a real pain.
> 
> Hi Alistair,
> 
> I (very much) sympathize with your comment but at this point it's pretty 
> much too late to consider changes. The working group last published the 
> Note on the JSON results format half a year ago, and that only removed 
> the "distinct" and "ordered" attributes which had been removed in the 
> XML results format. The rest of the JSON format has been stable and 
> published since October of 2006.
> 
> The Working Group is largely in hibernation mode right now and given 
> that and the relatively widespread deployment of the current JSON result 
> format, I don't see it likely to change.
> 
> I tried to look back through some emails to see a history of "xml:lang" 
> as the JSON key, but couldn't find anything conclusive. My best guess is 
> that it was done as an effort at consistency with the XML attribute, 
> which was a motivation that drove a lot of the JSON result format design 
> (even at the expense of making the JSON format somewhat more verbose 
> than it otherwise need be).
> 
> Lee
> 
>  > Otherwise, thanks for the great work.
>  >
>  > Alistair.
>  >
> 

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Alistair Miles
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