bluelinecity.com » JPath http://bluelinecity.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 09 May 2012 01:25:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A call for JPath http://bluelinecity.com/2007/10/11/a-call-for-jpath/ http://bluelinecity.com/2007/10/11/a-call-for-jpath/#comments Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:17:42 +0000 admin When given a choice of transportable data structures, I pick JSON over XML. I always liked the promises of XML however the amount of processing and external libraries needed to parse XML gives me a headache. Whereas JSON is pretty darn close to programming language’s native structure so parse time is greatly reduced. Plus, JSON files are much smaller than XML.

One thing I did like about XML is the ability to perform advanced queries to data structure using XPath. Doing a quick search for an XPath equivalent for JSON turned up nothing so I plan on creating a jPath object to do exactly this.

If anyone knows of a script that can already do this, please shoot me an email at [bryan at bluelinecity dot com]. Thanks!

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