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[Justin Santa Barbara <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> APPENDIX B: Outstanding issues
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> 4) Need to write xsds :(
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This is easy if you design a model which works with XML.  If you have an
XML compatible model, you can generate an XSD and a JSON model from that.
 Also, it means you can just use common middleware to map XML to JSON,
rather than coding XML parsing functions.

I think the one thing you'd have to change is that XML won't allow you to
serialize a dictionary with elements as keys (e.g. { "key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2" }, you have to do this: [ { "key": "key1", "value":
"value1" }, { "key": "key2", "value": "value2" } ]

I think this is only done in the image properties.

On the downside: The JSON isn't as JSON-ic as it could be.
On the upside: You need never worry about XML again