if (!Object.prototype.toJSONString) {

    Array.prototype.toJSONString = function () {
        var a = ['['],  // The array holding the text fragments.
            b,          // A boolean indicating that a comma is required.
            i,          // Loop counter.
            l = this.length,
            v;          // The value to be stringified.

        function p(s) {

// p accumulates text fragments in an array. It inserts a comma before all
// except the first fragment.

            if (b) {
                a.push(',');
            }
            a.push(s);
            b = true;
        }

// For each value in this array...

        for (i = 0; i < l; i += 1) {
            v = this[i];
            switch (typeof v) {

// Values without a JSON representation are ignored.

            case 'undefined':
            case 'function':
            case 'unknown':
                break;

// Serialize a JavaScript object value. Ignore objects thats lack the
// toJSONString method. Due to a specification error in ECMAScript,
// typeof null is 'object', so watch out for that case.

            case 'object':
                if (v) {
                    if (typeof v.toJSONString === 'function') {
                        p(v.toJSONString());
                    }
                } else {
                    p("null");
                }
                break;

// Otherwise, serialize the value.

            default:
                p(v.toJSONString());
            }
        }

// Join all of the fragments together and return.

        a.push(']');
        return a.join('');
    };


    Boolean.prototype.toJSONString = function () {
        return String(this);
    };


    Date.prototype.toJSONString = function () {

// Ultimately, this method will be equivalent to the date.toISOString method.

        function f(n) {

// Format integers to have at least two digits.

            return n < 10 ? '0' + n : n;
        }

        return '"' + this.getFullYear() + '-' +
                f(this.getMonth() + 1) + '-' +
                f(this.getDate()) + 'T' +
                f(this.getHours()) + ':' +
                f(this.getMinutes()) + ':' +
                f(this.getSeconds()) + '"';
    };


    Number.prototype.toJSONString = function () {

// JSON numbers must be finite. Encode non-finite numbers as null.

        return isFinite(this) ? String(this) : "null";
    };


    Object.prototype.toJSONString = function () {
        var a = ['{'],  // The array holding the text fragments.
            b,          // A boolean indicating that a comma is required.
            k,          // The current key.
            v;          // The current value.

        function p(s) {

// p accumulates text fragment pairs in an array. It inserts a comma before all
// except the first fragment pair.

            if (b) {
                a.push(',');
            }
            a.push('\"'+k.toJSONString()+'\"', ':', '\"'+s.replace(/"/g,'\＂')+'\"');	
            b = true;
        }

// Iterate through all of the keys in the object, ignoring the proto chain.

        for (k in this) {
            if (this.hasOwnProperty(k)) {
                v = this[k];
                switch (typeof v) {

// Values without a JSON representation are ignored.

                case 'undefined':
                case 'function':
                case 'unknown':
                    break;

// Serialize a JavaScript object value. Ignore objects that lack the
// toJSONString method. Due to a specification error in ECMAScript,
// typeof null is 'object', so watch out for that case.

                case 'object':
                    if (v) {
                        if (typeof v.toJSONString === 'function') {
                            p(v.toJSONString());
                        }
                    } else {
                        p("null");
                    }
                    break;
                default:
                    p(v.toJSONString());
                }
            }
        }

// Join all of the fragments together and return.

        a.push('}');
        return a.join('');
    };


    (function (s) {

// Augment String.prototype. We do this in an immediate anonymous function to
// avoid defining global variables.

// m is a table of character substitutions.

        var m = {
            '\b': '\\b',
            '\t': '\\t',
            '\n': '\\n',
            '\f': '\\f',
            '\r': '\\r',
            '"' : '\\"',
            '\\': '\\\\'
        };


        s.parseJSON = function (filter) {

// Parsing happens in three stages. In the first stage, we run the text against
// a regular expression which looks for non-JSON characters. We are especially
// concerned with '()' and 'new' because they can cause invocation, and '='
// because it can cause mutation. But just to be safe, we will reject all
// unexpected characters.

            try {
                if (/^("(\\.|[^"\\\n\r])*?"|[,:{}\[\]0-9.\-+Eaeflnr-u \n\r\t])+?$/.
                        test(this)) {

// In the second stage we use the eval function to compile the text into a
// JavaScript structure. The '{' operator is subject to a syntactic ambiguity
// in JavaScript: it can begin a block or an object literal. We wrap the text
// in parens to eliminate the ambiguity.

                    var j = eval('(' + this + ')');

// In the optional third stage, we recursively walk the new structure, passing
// each name/value pair to a filter function for possible transformation.

                    if (typeof filter === 'function') {

                        function walk(k, v) {
                            if (v && typeof v === 'object') {
                                for (var i in v) {
                                    if (v.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
                                        v[i] = walk(i, v[i]);
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                            return filter(k, v);
                        }

                        j = walk('', j);
                    }
                    return j;
                }
            } catch (e) {

// Fall through if the regexp test fails.

            }
            throw new SyntaxError("parseJSON");
        };


        s.toJSONString = function () {

// If the string contains no control characters, no quote characters, and no
// backslash characters, then we can simply slap some quotes around it.
// Otherwise we must also replace the offending characters with safe
// sequences.

            if (/["\\\x00-\x1f]/.test(this)) {
                return '"' + this.replace(/([\x00-\x1f\\"])/g, function(a, b) {
                    var c = m[b];
                    if (c) {
                        return c;
                    }
                    c = b.charCodeAt();
                    return '\\u00' +
                        Math.floor(c / 16).toString(16) +
                        (c % 16).toString(16);
                }) + '"';
            }
            //return '"' + this + '"';
            return this + '';
        };
    })(String.prototype);
}