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0 pointsjancsika8y ago0 comments

> (And I wonder how long time it will take before the JS-world re-implements this XML-wheel, while again doing so with a worse implementation)

I'm going to guess never. I'm also going to guess that there isn't a single flamewar in the entire history of JSON where someone was trying to figure out how to implement anything close to XML namespaces in JSON. And by "close", I mean something that would require changes to JSON parsers and/or downstream APIs to accommodate potentially bipartite keys.

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josteink8y ago

You never know. This is what they said about schemas too not many years back.

jancsikaOP8y ago

Have there been any discussions whatsoever about adding some sort of namespacing mechanism to JSON?

rspeer8y ago

Well, there's JSON-LD (JSON Linked Data) already.

It's for making interoperable APIs, so there is a good motivation for namespaces. But the namespaces are much less intrusive than XML namespaces. Ordinary API consumers don't even have to see them.

One of the key design goals of JSON-LD was that -- unlike its dismal ancestor, RDF/XML -- it should produce APIs that people actually want to use.

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