[Json] Have there been proposals for xpath-like expressions in json?

Daniel Parker <danielaparker@gmail.com> Fri, 30 January 2015 03:01 UTC

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Subject: [Json] Have there been proposals for xpath-like expressions in json?
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Hello everyone,

I'm interested in implementing xpath-like expressions for the opensource
c++ json library jsoncons <https://github.com/danielaparker/jsoncons>. I've
seen one proposal, JsonPath <http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/>, dated
2007. Have there been others?

Thank you,
Daniel Parker