[sword-devel] Offline Bible

[David Overcash]

Ahh ok - that helps a bit.

Yeah - generally speaking, JSON can become a very powerful tool when
referencing large data sets (i.e. bibles) - especially if you're willing to
simply use an enormous amount of memory and load an entire bible into a
single variable... and let's be honest, ever since Java and Firefox, using
large amounts of memory hasn't been an issue for developers....  ;-)

I think it would be a great test-case to build out our own online bible
reader (i.e. blueletterbible.org ) that used our modules and extended them
through PHP/JSON to the user.  I mean, if we just build the API plenty of
other developers could carry it from there, yes?  It seems to me that there
is definitely a need for this growing within the Christian development
community...

-David

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:

> While I'm sure the XML->JSON converter is interesting, generating JSON
> directly is likely to give you fewer problems.
> On that note, my job deals very extensively with JSON, so I'm quite
> familiar with the technology.
>
> --Greg
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:53 AM, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi David,
>>
>> For my own part, I'm not developing anything in JSON, just seeking to
>> understand whether and why JSON might be of potential interest to
>> CrossWire
>> developers.
>> i.e. Got my "lateral thinking hat" on.
>>
>> This article may of interest.
>>
>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xml2jsonphp/ Convert XML
>> to
>> JSON in PHP
>>
>> --David
>>
>>
>>
>> FunnyLookinHat wrote:
>> >
>> > I've worked with JSON - generally speaking, each IDE has it's own plugin
>> /
>> > library to work with JSON and it functions much like a high level OO
>> > class.
>> >
>> > For example, in PHP - If you decode JSON into a variable, you can access
>> > it's various properties as you would any other PHP class variable (i.e.
>> > $json_variable->part1).
>> >
>> > What are you trying to accomplish?  Work with just PHP locally?
>>  Wouldn't
>> > that require a local PHP server?
>> >
>> > -David
>> >
>>
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