AvalonEdit - xshd for JSON highlighting - wpf

Question

Is there an xshd ruleset for the AvalonEdit control to highlight the JSON syntax? I tried the definition for JavaScript, but it doesn't work well, i.e.:
{
"name" : "value"
}
both name and value have the same color using the JavaScript definition.
Is there a ruleset for JSON, and if not, how can I modify the xshd so that I get different colors for the name and value in JSON?

Answer 1

If somebody needs something like that, I worked it out in following way:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<SyntaxDefinition name="Json" extensions=".js" xmlns="http://icsharpcode.net/sharpdevelop/syntaxdefinition/2008">
<Color name="Digits" foreground="#8700FF" exampleText="3.14" />
<Color name="Value" foreground="#000CFF" exampleText="var text = "Hello, World!";" />
<Color name="ParamName" foreground="#057500" exampleText="var text = "Hello, World!";" />
<RuleSet ignoreCase="false">
<Keywords color="Digits" >
<Word>true</Word>
<Word>false</Word>
</Keywords>
<Span color="ParamName">
<Begin>"</Begin>
<End>(?=:)</End>
</Span>
<Span color="Value" multiline="true">
<Begin>
(?<=:)\040"[^"]*
</Begin>
<End>"</End>
</Span>
<Rule color="Digits">\b0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|(\b\d+(\.[0-9]+)?|\.[0-9]+)([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?</Rule>
</RuleSet>
</SyntaxDefinition>
Not perfect, but for me enough.

Answer 2

Just use AvalonEdit's JavaScript highlighter.
Sample code:
using (var stream = Assembly.GetAssembly(typeof(ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.TextEditor)).GetManifestResourceStream("ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit.Highlighting.Resources.JavaScript-Mode.xshd"))
{
using (var reader = new XmlTextReader(stream))
{
avalonEdit.SyntaxHighlighting = HighlightingLoader.Load(reader, HighlightingManager.Instance);
SearchPanel.Install(avalonEdit);
}
}