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1 JSON in JavaScript
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4 Douglas Crockford
5 douglas@crockford.com
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7 2010-11-18
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10 JSON is a light-weight, language independent, data interchange format.
11 See http://www.JSON.org/
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13 The files in this collection implement JSON encoders/decoders in JavaScript.
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15 JSON became a built-in feature of JavaScript when the ECMAScript Programming
16 Language Standard - Fifth Edition was adopted by the ECMA General Assembly
17 in December 2009. Most of the files in this collection are for applications
18 that are expected to run in obsolete web browsers. For most purposes, json2.js
19 is the best choice.
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22 json2.js: This file creates a JSON property in the global object, if there
23 isn't already one, setting its value to an object containing a stringify
24 method and a parse method. The parse method uses the eval method to do the
25 parsing, guarding it with several regular expressions to defend against
26 accidental code execution hazards. On current browsers, this file does nothing,
27 prefering the built-in JSON object.
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29 json.js: This file does everything that json2.js does. It also adds a
30 toJSONString method and a parseJSON method to Object.prototype. Use of this
31 file is not recommended.
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33 json_parse.js: This file contains an alternative JSON parse function that
34 uses recursive descent instead of eval.
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36 json_parse_state.js: This files contains an alternative JSON parse function that
37 uses a state machine instead of eval.
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39 cycle.js: This file contains two functions, JSON.decycle and JSON.retrocycle,
40 which make it possible to encode cyclical structures and dags in JSON, and to
41 then recover them. JSONPath is used to represent the links.
42 http://GOESSNER.net/articles/JsonPath/