[Playlist] an alternate xspf over json implementation
Sebastian Pipping
webmaster at hartwork.org
Wed Jun 13 20:55:04 UTC 2007
Chris Anderson wrote:
> I updated the page to handle extension elements. I was surprised to
> see how easy it was to handle multiple extensions from the same
> application.
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With mixed extension types we lose the extension order this
way, right? Is that order important to preserve?
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> One interesting deviation from the XML, and worth
> discussing: Rather than have the extensions contain a JSON conversion
> of arbitrary XML - which is the stuff that can get complicated quick -
> I've got them containing arbitrary JSON.
>
> What this means is that it will be up to each extension developer to
> decide how they want to express their extensions in JSON. Should they
> choose a verbose raw transform from XML, they are able to do that, but
> should they choose a tighter format more native to JSON, we'll support
> that as well.
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You mean an auto conversion for an extension from XML to JSON
will work but maybe look bad but extension authors can
define a better JSON edition as well?
Sebastian
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