Clarification of the example appendix

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Alexandre Dulaunoy 2013-12-27 16:47:49 +01:00
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<section title="Overview">
<t>The formatting of the answer follows the <xref target="RFC4627">JSON</xref> format. The order of the fields is not significant for the same resource type. That means, the same name tuple plus timing information identifies a unique answer per server.</t>
<t>The intent of this output format is to be easily parsable by scripts. Each JSON object is expressed on a single line to be processed by the client line-by-line. Every implementation MUST support the JSON output format.</t> <!-- note: it is "parsable" if you want to be really nit-picking. See: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parsable -->
</section>
<section title="Example">
<figure><preamble>A sample output using the JSON format:</preamble><artwork><![CDATA[
... (list of )...
{ "count": 97167,
"time_first": "1277353744",
"rrtype": "A", "rrname": "google-public-dns-a.google.com.",
"rdata": "8.8.8.8",
"time_last": "1386405372" }
... (separated by newline)...
]]></artwork></figure>
<t><xref target="app-additional">Examples of JSON</xref> output are in the appendix.</t>
</section>
<section title="ABNF grammar">
<figure><preamble>Formal grammar as defined in <xref target="RFC2234">ABNF</xref></preamble><artwork><![CDATA[