- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:52:43 -0700
On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:23 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Charles Pritchard <chuck at jumis.com> wrote:
>> Now that DOM4 includes DOMString as an argument type for Node methods, I'd like to have a clear and easy path to serialize a JSON object into an XML DOMString.
>>
>> It's not a trivial task. Any takers?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> JSON.toXML({div:'Hello world'});
>
> I'm curious why you would want such a thing. You can store DOM trees
> as strings and revive them when used. You can transmit DOM across XHR
> either as a string or, soon, directly as a document.
>
> I don't see a reason to store DOM into an alternative JSON structure.
JSON is widely more popular than XML for a lot of APIs. People use JSON.stringify an parse quite a bit. I may be misunderstanding what it is you mean by DOM.
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