{"id":227,"date":"2008-01-24T23:42:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T06:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/webpath-wants-to-be-free-bsd-licensed-specifically\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T06:51:33","slug":"webpath-wants-to-be-free-bsd-licensed-specifically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2008\/01\/webpath-wants-to-be-free-bsd-licensed-specifically\/","title":{"rendered":"WebPath wants to be free (BSD licensed, specifically)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2044\/2214215295_e322799f6d_m.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer\" class=\"yfsc_image\" id=\"yfsc_1_70651647@N00\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WebPath, my experimental XPath 2.0 engine in Python is now an open source project with a liberal BSD license. I originally developed this during a Yahoo! Hack Day, and now I get to announce it during another Hack Day. Seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of WebPath was rapid development and providing an experimental platform. There remains tons of potential work left to do on it&#8230;watch this space for continued discussion. I&#8217;d like to call out special thanks to the <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1201243487_0\">Yahoo<\/span>! management for supporting me on this, and to Douglas Crockford for turning me on to <a href=\"http:\/\/javascript.crockford.com\/tdop\/index.html\" title=\"as seen in _Beautiful Code_\">Top Down Operator Precedence<\/a> parsers. Have a look at the code. You might be pleasantly surprised at how small and simple a basic XPath 2 engine can be. So, who&#8217;s up for some XPath hacking?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/events\/XML2007\/WebPath.zip\" title=\"20k zip file\">Code download<\/a>. (Coming to <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1201243487_1\">SourceForge<\/span> with <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1201243487_2\">CVS<\/span>, etc., in however many days it takes them to approve a new project) I hope this inspires more developers to work on similar projects, or better yet, on this one! -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebPath, my experimental XPath 2.0 engine in Python is now an open source project with a liberal BSD license. I originally developed this during a Yahoo! Hack Day, and now I get to announce it during another Hack Day. Seems appropriate. The focus of WebPath was rapid development and providing an experimental platform. There remains&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,6,24,4,32,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-intentional-web","category-python","category-xml","category-xpath","category-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-3F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}