[x3d-public] How to tell if a file is JSON

[Leonard Daly]

John,

I don't see an icon like you described - screen shot attached.


Leonard Daly




> It should be the tool on the far right.   Look for an icon similar to 
> the one found on http://json.org.  It should work, I just converted 
> something.
>
> John
>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 11:00 PM, Leonard Daly <web3d at realism.com 
>> <mailto:web3d at realism.com>> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/1/2015 8:21 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>> Leonard, you can go into X3D-Edit, select an X3D file and hit the 
>>> moebius circle.
>>
>> I am running "X3D-Edit 3.3 Authoring Tool 201302132200". It says to 
>> be the latest revision.  I have no idea where the moebius circle is 
>> or what exactly it looks like. I cannot find any conversions to JSON 
>> in the menus. I had attached the XML file (commentTest.x3d) to the 
>> previous message hoping that someone would be able to convert it. 
>> Perhaps there is not a tool for conversion at this time?
>>
>>
>> Leonard Daly
>>
>>
>>>
>>> John
>>>> On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Leonard Daly <web3d at realism.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have not been following the details enough for me to be able to 
>>>> run a conversion. I have created an X3D file using X3D-Edit 
>>>> (probably an old version) and converted it ClassicVRML using Xj3D. 
>>>> I also converted it to ClassicVRML using a style sheet, but that 
>>>> produced only 1 line of content - the XML header line.
>>>>
>>>> I would like to see what this file looks like in JSON encoding (and 
>>>> ClassicVRML, but that is a really minor point).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>> Leonard Daly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Comments are not allowed in a JSON file (I 
>>>>> usedhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-i-use-comments-inside-a-json-fileand 
>>>>> the references contained in the page, especially tojson.org 
>>>>> <http://json.org/>, RFC 4627 and RFC 7159).
>>>>>
>>>>> Does this approach puts comments into JSON data elements? If so, 
>>>>> that means comments have been elevated from text in the file to 
>>>>> data in the file. If this approach is to capture comments 
>>>>> throughout the original non-JSON file, does that mean the data 
>>>>> model between a JSON-encoded scene and an XML-encoded scene is 
>>>>> significantly different?
>>>>>
>>>>> Out of curiosity, does the compressed binary encoding capture 
>>>>> comments from anyplace in the original scene file? If so, does the 
>>>>> data model that is stored in the CBE file match that of the 
>>>>> original file?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Leonard Daly
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/30/2015 9:27 PM, Don Brutzman wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/30/2015 4:23 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>>>>>> There might be a comment before the first x3d object.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> very interesting observation!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - since JSON does not support comments, and
>>>>>> - since we have come up with an allowable approach for comments 
>>>>>> inside an X3D scene graph that allows round-trip support with 
>>>>>> other encodings,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> then
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - we probably ought to deliberately avoid capturing or including 
>>>>>> any comments in the JSON encoding that might appear outside the 
>>>>>> "X3D" object declaration.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> all the best, Don
>>>>>

-- 
*Leonard Daly*
X3D Co-Chair
Cloud Consultant
President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/
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