On 15/12/2012, at 3:45 AM, David J. Biesack <David.Biesack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "4.1 add" bullet 3 reads (when completing the introductory sentence)
>
> ... the target location MUST reference ...
> o An element to add to an existing array.
>
> I think this is incorrect; the target location is the array and the "value" is the "element to add to an existing array". I suggest:
>
> ... the target location MUST reference ...
> o An existing array.
Given the JSON:
{
"foo": [ "a", "b", "c" ]
}
then a reference to an existing array would be:
/foo
whereas a reference to an element of an existing array would be:
/foo/1
'add'ing to these would have VERY different effects; the former would replace the entire array; the latter would replace one member of it.
Both are legal, it's just that the former isn't getting captured in this definition; it's an object member, not an array member.
Cheers,
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Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/