LDAP

LDAP has a very powerful path specification language. Unfortunately, it's somewhat more cumbersome than XPath, and familiar to fewer people than other more well-known tree navigation languages such as XPath and glob().

I'm proposing that the next version of LDAP have an option to use TreePath-based paths (as described in TreePath -- a universal tree navigation language) as well as the traditional LDAP ones.

I'm not a die-hard XML fan. It has its place, but it's not the best thing ever. But there is one thing about the XML milieu that I really do like.