Re: [Jsonpath] JSONPath draft charter

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 02 September 2020 15:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Jsonpath] JSONPath draft charter
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On 2020-09-02, at 17:39, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
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> We're maybe overthinking this. Yes, JSONPointer and JMESpath exist, but lots of people are using JSONPath, there's good software support but no spec, so it would be beneficial to write a spec. What's the alternative, everyone now using JSONPath rewrites their software because the alternative has a spec?

I think this is just a “we made our homework” type statement: We looked at these and know that they exist, but the proposed WG is something different.

Murray: Du you think that what we have is good enough to send it back to DISPATCH?

Grüße, Carsten