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<span id="author">Michael Stapelberg</span><br />\r
<span id="email"><tt><<a href="mailto:michael@i3wm.org">michael@i3wm.org</a>></tt></span><br />\r
<span id="revdate">April 2014</span>\r
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-Layout files contain multiple “JSON documents” on the top level, whereas the\r
- JSON standard only allows precisely one “document” (array or hash).\r
+Layout files contain multiple “JSON texts” at the top level. The JSON\r
+ standard doesn’t prohibit this, but in practice most JSON parsers only\r
+ allow precisely one “text” per document/file, and will mark multiple texts\r
+ as invalid JSON.\r
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-Layout files contain comments which are not standardized, but understood by\r
- many parsers.\r
+Layout files contain comments which are not allowed by the JSON standard,\r
+ but are understood by many parsers.\r
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-<div class="paragraph"><p>Both deviations from the JSON standard are to make manual editing by humans\r
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Both of these deviations from the norm are to make manual editing by humans\r
easier. In case you are writing a more elaborate tool for manipulating these\r
layouts, you can either use a JSON parser that supports these deviations (for\r
example libyajl), transform the layout file to a JSON-conforming file, or\r
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