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Re: [Jsonpath] Remarks on the JSONPath ABNF grammar in draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath-00.html

Glyn Normington <glyn.normington@gmail.com> Fri, 13 November 2020 07:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jsonpath] Remarks on the JSONPath ABNF grammar in draft-goessner-dispatch-jsonpath-00.html
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Hi Daniel

On 12 Nov 2020, at 17:37, Daniel P <danielaparker@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Note that a slice expression in Goessner is defined with reference to
> the (long since abandoned) ECMASCRIPT 4. The original link is lost,
> but there is some discussion here,
> https://web.archive.org/web/20070125020659/developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/slice_syntax.html <https://web.archive.org/web/20070125020659/developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/slice_syntax.html>.

We plugged that gap in the Gössner article thus:

https://jsonpath-standard.github.io/internet-draft/#name-array-selector-2 <https://jsonpath-standard.github.io/internet-draft/#name-array-selector-2>

which may be a safer starting point for the WG.

Regards,
Glyn

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