Actionscript/Flex not having native JSON parsing abilities?

I have done some searching around, and from what i开发者_高级运维t looks like so far, there is no native way to parse JSON in Actionscript/Flex. XML is automagiaclly parsed and life is good. Why isn't JSON parsed this same way?

Native JSON parsing is a part of Flash Player 11. You can look at the API in the docs. For earlier versions, you'll have to use a library, like as3corelib to parse JSON.