XSL(T) for JSON
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Jocke Selin
May 27, 2015, 10:46:15 AM5/27/15
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Hey,
Apropos open and linked data. Sort of.
Not (strictly) Ruby related, but as you’re all a bunch of smart nerds I thought I’d share this (totally un-researched) thing I thought of.
About a thousand Internet years ago (in year 2000-ish) XML was touted to be the next big thing, and some other clever people came up with WSDL and tons of other acronyms. It wasn’t until I saw XSL and XSLT that I found a true use for XML. In fact we built our Internet framework (unheard of in 2000!) based on an XML back end and XSL front end. It drove a hard wedge in between data and presentation. It was awesome. Except for two things; it was dog slow (but today we have the technology) and it was so incredibly verbose that you ended up writing way more XSL than anything else.
Today, JSON has pretty much replaced XML, which I’m personally quite pleased about. However, I thought that there was real power and ingenuity in how XSL managed to pick stuff out of the XML and started wondering what such a thing would look like for JSON. Could one combine XPath-like ideas with JSON? Or should we stick with programmatically extracting and looping over JSON structures? Even if one of my pet annoyances with Web Applications is the extreme amount of languages, mark ups, pseudo-languages, etc that we need to know, this idea might get an approval in my head.
Anyway, it’s just one of those loose thoughts which I think would be quite interesting to soak in a few beers at a meeting one day. :)
Hope last meeting was fun.
Cheers,
/Jocke
Apropos open and linked data. Sort of.
Not (strictly) Ruby related, but as you’re all a bunch of smart nerds I thought I’d share this (totally un-researched) thing I thought of.
About a thousand Internet years ago (in year 2000-ish) XML was touted to be the next big thing, and some other clever people came up with WSDL and tons of other acronyms. It wasn’t until I saw XSL and XSLT that I found a true use for XML. In fact we built our Internet framework (unheard of in 2000!) based on an XML back end and XSL front end. It drove a hard wedge in between data and presentation. It was awesome. Except for two things; it was dog slow (but today we have the technology) and it was so incredibly verbose that you ended up writing way more XSL than anything else.
Today, JSON has pretty much replaced XML, which I’m personally quite pleased about. However, I thought that there was real power and ingenuity in how XSL managed to pick stuff out of the XML and started wondering what such a thing would look like for JSON. Could one combine XPath-like ideas with JSON? Or should we stick with programmatically extracting and looping over JSON structures? Even if one of my pet annoyances with Web Applications is the extreme amount of languages, mark ups, pseudo-languages, etc that we need to know, this idea might get an approval in my head.
Anyway, it’s just one of those loose thoughts which I think would be quite interesting to soak in a few beers at a meeting one day. :)
Hope last meeting was fun.
Cheers,
/Jocke
Pierre Riteau
Jun 15, 2015, 1:06:33 PM6/15/15
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Hello,
There are apparently many XPath / XSLT equivalents for JSON. I came
across http://jmespath.org recently.
Check out these threads for many more:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8481380/is-there-a-json-equivalent-of-xquery-xpath
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618038/xslt-equivalent-for-json
- http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/264706/xslt-equivalent-for-json
Pierre
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There are apparently many XPath / XSLT equivalents for JSON. I came
across http://jmespath.org recently.
Check out these threads for many more:
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8481380/is-there-a-json-equivalent-of-xquery-xpath
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1618038/xslt-equivalent-for-json
- http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/264706/xslt-equivalent-for-json
Pierre
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Jocke Selin
Jun 17, 2015, 4:59:31 AM6/17/15
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Hi Pierre,
Thanks for that. I’ll have to check these out when I find a moment. :) I’m pleased to see that there are options out there. :)
Cheers,
/Jocke
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Thanks for that. I’ll have to check these out when I find a moment. :) I’m pleased to see that there are options out there. :)
Cheers,
/Jocke
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