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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $Revision: 1.1 $ -->
+<reference id="ref.json">
+ <title>JSON Functions</title>
+ <titleabbrev>JSON</titleabbrev>
+
+ <partintro>
+  <section id="json.intro">
+   &reftitle.intro;
+   <para>
+    This extension implements the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) 
+    data-interchange format. The decoding is handled by a parser based on 
+    the JSON_checker by Douglas Crockford.
+   </para>
+  </section>
+  
+  <section id="json.requirements">
+   &reftitle.required;
+   <para>
+    As of PHP 5.2.0, the JSON extension is bundled and compiled into PHP by 
+    default.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    &pecl.info; 
+    <ulink url="&url.pecl.package;json">&url.pecl.package;json</ulink>
+   </para>
+  </section>
+ </partintro>
+ 
+ &reference.json.functions;
+
+</reference>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"../../../manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->