RE: [xdi] Proposed additional X3 representation format, or a replacement for X3 Whitespace

["Barnhill, William [USA]" <barnhill_william@bah.com>]

Both good questions, I'll address them both in full  soon as possible but that won't be for a couple days as I'm really under the gun right now. 
Markus, the short answer to your question for was that I was using 'x' to mean ref, and "x" to mean string, but that's a language specific artifact. My initial thought is that 
{"+friend": "=Bill.Barnhill"} means value is a String (which could be an XRI if it validates as one), and
{"+friend": {"=Bill.Barnhill": undefined}}

Seems closest to my initial thinking but alas does not work in JSON.stringify, so perhaps 
{"+friend": {"=Bill.Barnhill": nulll}}  
or
{"=markus": {"+friend": {"=Bill.barnhill": {} } } } <-- Despite lispish feel I probably like this one best of the ones that work.


Kind regards,

Bill Barnhill
Booz Allen Hamilton - Rome, NY
315-330-7386  | william.barnhill.ctr@rl.af.mil | barnhill_william@bah.com
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From: drummond.reed@gmail.com [drummond.reed@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Drummond Reed [drummond.reed@xdi.org]
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 5:39 PM
To: Markus Sabadello
Cc: Barnhill, William [USA]; OASIS - XDI TC
Subject: Re: [xdi] Proposed additional X3 representation format, or a   replacement for X3 Whitespace

Good question, Markus. I was looking over Bill's example and had a second question. The example shows that subcontexts begin with the string "_context". That, too, is a valid XRI string. I think it would be a mistake to start reserving XRIs to have special semantics unless they are $ words defined for this purpose.

So that's a second issue we need to address if we are going to make X3J part of the XDI Serialization spec.

=Drummond

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@xdi.org<mailto:markus.sabadello@xdi.org>> wrote:
Hi Bill,

I tried implementing your X3J format, but I have a question:
How would one distinguish between a literal and a reference?

E.g. if I have this X3J data:

{
    "=markus":
        {
            "+friend":    "=bill.barnhill"
        }
}

How would I know if it translates to this graph:

=markus
        +friend
                =bill.barnhill

or to this graph:

=markus
        +friend
                "=bill.barnhill"

??

Markus

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Barnhill, William [USA] <barnhill_william@bah.com<mailto:barnhill_william@bah.com>> wrote:

I've edited http://wiki.oasis-open.org/xdi/X3Format to add text proposing an X3 representation that is directly in JSON as opposed to similar to JSON.  Given the broad adoption of JSON and the usefulness of this I'm seeing in my work I wanted to share it with the TC.  JSON format is still rough but works. I will add formatting rules section this weekend.
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