Re: Re: What style of RPG program can communicate with PHP?

XML is 80-90% overhead. All that metadata built into each and every document is largely unnecessary fluff. If you control both ends of the transaction, it is better to use some other format. Just my own personal opinion.

Mark Murphy
STAR BASE Consulting, Inc.
mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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From: Alan Campin
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Date: 11/30/2012 05:12PM
Subject: Re: Re: What style of RPG program can communicate with PHP?

OK, but how do you parse the JSON? There are all kinds of choices for
parsing XML including built into the RPG language. Hard for me to believe
that XML has that much overhead.


On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

send everything back and forth as XML ...

Good point about using messages, but see how streamlined JSON is;
addressing your concerns about performance (generating and parsing XML).

Simple Variable:

"hello world"

Basic Array:

["a","b","c",4,5,"six"]


Basic Object (name-value pairs):

{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Doe"}


Object Array:


[{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Allen"},{"firstName":"Anna","lastName":"Smith"},{"firstName":"Peter","lastName":"Jones"}]


2-Dimensional Basic Array:

[["one","two","three"],["four","five","six"],["seven","eight","nine"]]


-Nathan

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