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Re: CIF-JSON draft 2017-05-15

Yes -- it's a single-item object.

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Marcin Wojdyr <wojdyr@gmail.com> wrote:
On 17 May 2017 at 05:06, Robert Hanson <hansonr@stolaf.edu> wrote:

>> Interesting idea.  We could change the 'Metadata' top-level JSON name to
>> 'CIF-JSON' and recommend that this name appears first in the serialised
>> stream, where possible. I don't think it is possible to make this stronger
>> and mandate an order for keys in JSON objects, however.
>>
>
> It's always possible to do that.

But would it be JSON? JSON map has unspecified order of items.

Marcin
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