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Re: Defiant.js - searching and processing JSON with XPathand X

• From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>, "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 07:15:25 -0800

I also looked at this.

From my experience with its visualizer, this seems to be only a
limited solution, that requires the names used in the JSON object to
be XML names. It requires a special @name to be used for anything that
would be converted to an attribute.

Also, it isn't clear whether or not they can convert any JSON object
to an XML document. Edge-cases need to be tested. Especially arrays
and "null".
It isn't clear how non-XML characters in the JSON object would be treated.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> A powerful mix of XML and JSON:
>
>         Defiant.js provides the ability for you to perform lightning fast searches
>         on JSON structures using XPath expressions and enables XSL transformations
>         using JSON data.
>
> Here are some examples that show using XPath on JSON:
>
> var obj = {"car": [{"@id": 10, "@color": "silver", "name": "Volvo"},
>                                   {"@id": 11, "@color": "red",    "name": "Saab"},
>                   {"@id": 12, "@color": "red",    "name": "Peugeot"},
>                   {"@id": 13, "@color": "yellow", "name": "Porsche"}
>                 ],
>         "bike": [{"@id": 20, "@color": "black", "name": "Cannondale"},
>                 {"@id": 21, "@color": "red",   "name": "Shimano"}
>
>                 ]},
>
> search = JSON.search(obj, '//car[@color="yellow"]/name');
>
> console.log( search );
>
> // ["Porsche"]
>
> var reds = JSON.search(obj, '//*[@color="red"]');
>
> for (var i=0; i<reds.length; i++) {
>         console.log( reds[i].name );
> }
>
> // Saab
> // Peugeot
> // Shimano
>
> http://defiantjs.com/
>
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  • Defiant.js - searching and processing JSON with XPath and XSLT
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>