2006/12/3, Joe Shaw <<a href="mailto:joeshaw@novell.com">joeshaw@novell.com</a>>:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > Just a quick idea, > > How about using JSON (<a href="http://www.json.org">www.json.org</a> <<a href="http://www.json.org">http://www.json.org</a>>) 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. </blockquote><div> 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. </div> </div> Cheers, Mikkel