# Querying JSON databases/resources

**URL:** <https://sirix.discourse.group/t/querying-json-databases-resources/15>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://sirix.discourse.group/t/querying-json-databases-resources/15 "2019-02-20T22:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![johannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sirix.discourse.group/johannes/32/7_2.png) [@johannes](https://sirix.discourse.group/u/johannes)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://sirix.discourse.group/t/querying-json-databases-resources/15/1 "2019-02-20T22:22:53Z")

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Would you like to have XPath navigation or are navigational primitives as for instance

```
(: values of record field can be accessed using the deref operator '=>' :) 
{ a : "hello" , b : "world" }=>b (: yields the string "world" :) 
(: the deref operator can be used to navigate into deeply nested record structures :) 
let $n := "yval" let $r := {e : {m:"mvalue", n:$n}} return $r=>e=>n

```

enough to begin with? I guess we should support JSONiq to use Brackit, the XQuery processor also for JSON data.

Kind regards  
Johannes

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**Author:** ![johannes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sirix.discourse.group/johannes/32/7_2.png) [@johannes](https://sirix.discourse.group/u/johannes)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2019, 7:40pm UTC](https://sirix.discourse.group/t/querying-json-databases-resources/15/2 "2019-04-02T19:40:09Z")

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Okay, I went the Brackit way (mostly JSONiq) 🙂