As to cross format path querying, I see limited value in such an endeavour; the reason that one deals with such formats is generally because it is used as an in

As to cross format path querying, I see limited value in such an endeavour; the reason that one deals with such formats is generally because it is used as an interface to configure some tool, but moving across different tools, besides the path queries, even the configuration schemas differ, and having a cross format converter would do you no good. The fact that many such configuration formats support subtly (or drastically) divergent types of objects does this idea no good either. Speaking of this topic, I would be very interested in a CLI tool that translated between different dialects of regex. As opposed to general data or configuration, I find the case for cross format conversion very compelling for regexes; the objects that different regex languages deal with are functionally completely identical. I would be very happy to be able to craft a regex to search for something in vim, then convert the regex to grep or use another tool on the shell, then perhaps adapt it to some other scripting languages e.g. Javascript/Ruby/Perl. Indeed I am sad that I am not finding any CLI tools (non web-based) for this beyond https://github.com/Anadian/regex-translator https://github.com/Anadian/regex-translator . Am hopeful for more suggestions.