Re: [Json] Proposed rechartering for the JSON WG

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Tim Bray <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Nico Williams <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> An XPath/XSLT for JSON would be good.  There's a great candidate for
>> that: http://stedolan.github.io/jq .
>
> jq seems like overkill. Wow, would it ever be easy to do a JSON path
> selector.   They practically read themselves

jq let's you do exactly that, and more too (just like XPath, and
especially XSLT).

It is missing an operator that trivially allows writing things like
//"buffer"/"size", but it's not hard to write a utility function that
allows it, and the manual has examples of this sort of thing using the
recurse built-in.  (I'll probably end up contributing such a thing;
it'd make sense to parse ..buffer.size and turning it into a search
for objects with a buffer name whose value is an object with a size
name.)

Nico
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