Re: JSON-LD in examples invalid due to comments

On Nov 28, 2013, at 2:48 AM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@unibw.de> wrote:
> 
> Just my two cents: Would it be completely unthinkable to introduce a syntax for comments in JSON and JSON-LD?

It's outside the scope of JSON-LD to change the base JSON syntax, but if this were supported in JSON, JSON-LD would pick it up automatically.

Alternatively, using an undefined key, such as @comment, would work transparently.

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@comment": "John listened to Pink with Steve at Anna's appartment on his iPod.",
  "@context": "http://schema.org",
  "@type": "ListenAction",

>> On Nov 28, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Markus Lanthaler wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've just realized that all (?) JSON-LD examples in schema.org are invalid
>> since they include comments. Just as JSON, JSON-LD doesn't support comments.
>> 
>> Example 1 of http://schema.org/Action for instance begins as follows:
>> 
>> <script type="application/ld+json">
>>   // John listened to Pink with Steve at Anna's appartment on his iPod.
>> {
>>   "@context": "http://schema.org",
>>   "@type": "ListenAction",
>>   ...
>> 
>> The second line turns this into invalid JSON(-LD). It should thus be
>> rewritten to
>> 
>> <script type="application/ld+json">
>> {
>>   "@context": "http://schema.org",
>>   "@type": "ListenAction",
>>   ...
>> 
>> 
>> Would it be possible to remove those comments at the beginning of all
>> examples? I fear that otherwise a lot of people will adapt this style which
>> will lead to severe interoperability problems.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Markus
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Markus Lanthaler
>> @markuslanthaler
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