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What is JSON and is it better than xml etc
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
What is JSON and is it better than xml etc
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Network:
Windows Server 2012 R2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Virtual environment:
VMWare
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Thread ID:
01665642
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01665642
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Hi all,

In discussion with another developer about re-doing a system. This system interacted with a document database and the integration with the VFP app was done with calls that always returned an xml string. The other developer had mentioned using json to return back data from the server.

I have done the wikipedia lookup and have an idea what json data looks like but have some questions:

1) are their json parsers out there for VFP or would I have to write my own; with xml, there were the built in xml functions which I used

2) does json have any advantages over xml?

3) any "gotchas" to watch out for?

Albert
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