Lyndon Samson wrote: > It seems similar in spirit to JXPath for java which lets you use XPath > expressions to access objects, Hashs, Arrays, Maps etc which otherwise > is quite longwinded in java ( no snickering please ). > > http://jakarta.apache.org/comm ons/jxpath/ I took a skim thru this. It seems like XPath is all 'traversal of the object graph' and thus very much like Reg's Object and Hash matchers. The Array matcher does that and also matches regexp-like patterns within arrays. Does XPath have that? I didn't see anything.