ScraperJSON feature: ability to nest elements

[blahah]

We need the ability to create nested elements.

An example use-case is getting details for authors in a journal article. Each author might have the following metadata:

• name
• affiliation
• email

Ideally these things can be associated with one another, so that the extractor looks something like:

"authors": {
  "selectors": {
    "name": {
      "selector": "//some_selector",
      "attribute": "text"
    },
    "affiliation": {
      "selector": "//some_selector",
      "attribute": "text"
    },
    "email": {
      "selector": "//some_selector",
      "attribute": "text"
    }
  }
}

This allows a nice structured output like:

"authors": [
  {
    "name": "Some Person",
    "affiliation": "Miscellaneous Institute",
    "email": "their@addre.ss"
  },
  {
    "name": "Another Person",
    "affiliation": "Another Institute",
    "email": "more@addre.ss"
  }
]

tbc.

[petermr]

Does BibJSON support this? If so it can be the target syntax

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Richard Smith-Unna <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

We need the ability to create nested elements.

An example use-case is getting details for authors in a journal article.
Each author might have the following metadata:

• name
• affiliation
• email

Ideally these things can be associated with one another, so that the
extractor looks something like:

"authors": {
"selectors": {
"name": {
"selector": "//some_selector",
"attribute": "text"
},
"affiliation": {
"selector": "//some_selector",
"attribute": "text"
},
"email": {
"selector": "//some_selector",
"attribute": "text"
}
}}

This allows a nice structured output like:

"authors": [
{
"name": "Some Person",
"affiliation": "Miscellaneous Institute",
"email": "their@addre.ss"
},
{
"name": "Another Person",
"affiliation": "Another Institute",
"email": "more@addre.ss"
}]

tbc.

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[blahah]

Yes it does. Although bibJSON is not prescriptive about vocabulary, it specifies that author should be a list of objects. From the examples at the bibjson website:

    "author": [
        {
            "name": "Erdös, Paul",
            "alternate": ["Paul Erdos"],
            "firstname": "Paul",
            "lastname": "Erdös",
            "id": "paulerdos"
        }
    ]