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

[Leonard Daly]

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 
>> <mailto: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 used 
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/244777/can-i-use-comments-inside-a-json-file 
>>> and the references contained in the page, especially to json.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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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> *Leonard Daly*
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