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I have been looking at JSONPath and though it seems pretty well done, I wonder if anyone has worked with it and can comment on its usability, or can recommend alternatives? What would be really slick is if there was a plugin for JQuery that did something like this. I have been searching the plugins and coming up empty handed. Anyway, before I spend time getting to know JSONPath (which has some aspects I am not keen on), or before I reinvent wheels, I thought I'd see if anyone had an angle on this... To give you an idea what I mean, imagine this Javascript object: var Characters=[ { id: "CuriousGeorge", species:"Monkey", mood: "curious", appendage: [ { type: "hand", side: "left", holding: [ { id: "Banana" } ] }, { type: "hand", side: "right", holding: [] }, { type: "foot", side: "left", holding: [] }, { type: "foot", side: "right", holding: [ { id: "YellowHat" }, { id: "Keys" } ] } ] }, { id: "ManInYellowHat", species: "Human", mood: "angry", //...ok, you get it... } ] Wouldn't it be great to get to of some of the deeper objects by something like Jquery selectors? var banana=SomeUtility("Characters holding #Banana").get(0); var leftHands=SomeUtility("Characters appendage[type=hand][side=left]").get(); (This may qualify for worlds corniest code example, but h

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