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'''JSON''', which stands for "'''J'''ava'''sS'''cript '''o'''bject '''n'''otation", is a lightweight data interchange format. '''JSON''' has the advantage, over [[XML]], as a data interchange format in that it can be trivially parsed, by JavascriptJavaScript, with JavascriptJavaScript's built in [[eval]]() procedure. (This is important because of [[JavascriptJavaScript]]'s ubiquitousness amoung [[web browsers]].) '''JSON''' is JavascriptJavaScript's [[object literal]] format.

== Using JSON ==

'''JSON''' is useful as a data-interchange format because it can be trivially parsed, by JavascriptJavaScript built in [[eval]]() procedure. For example:

eval("the_object = " + json_data + ";");