2006/12/3, Joe Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > Just a quick idea, > > How about using JSON (www.json.org <http://www.json.org>) as to > represent the query objects (instead of xml)? I'm reluctant to do this because I'm not sure how comprehensive the stacks are for C#. The XML stacks we have -- the built in one in Mono, or libxml2 for C -- are very mature parts of the platforms. > It is light, easily readable, widespread, and there is possibility to > write extremely fast parsers. Maybe, but we should be focusing our efforts on building the search software, not on hot-serialization-technology-of-the-day parsers.
Right. I was just airing the idea. I was thinking that it might be "simpler" in some way, ut after playing around a bit with pen and paper, I actually think that XML is the simpler solution. Cheers, Mikkel
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