wayland's Computer Stuff - TreePath

TreePath and LDAP

wayland — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:05:12 +0000

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.

TreePath and glob()

wayland — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:47:34 +0000

glob(), as I said in the article "TreePath -- a universal tree navigation language", has its good points, but is lacking in power. It's time an upgrade was done.

TreePath and XPath

wayland — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:45:40 +0000

What advantages would XPath gain from using TreePath? There are a few:

Simple TreePath would provide a simpler alternative to XPath
If the TreePath language becomes more widely used, people will be able to learn XPath more easily because it will already be familiar.
If TreePath becomes more widely used (eg. in filesystem navigation), there will be a much larger pool of people contributing to and optimising it.

TreePath -- a universal tree navigation language

wayland — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:23:37 +0000

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.