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This library is a strict superset of the JMESPath specification — all 25 standard functions pass the official compliance suite, but the library ships intentional extensions that diverge from the spec.
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New section: "Differences from the JMESPath specification" — exhaustive table-driven documentation of every deviation from the official spec:
add,sub,mult,div,remove$root variable access (not in spec)useCaseInsensitiveComparisonoption (not in spec)nullhandling — where the spec would throw a type error, this library returnsfalse/0to_numberextended to parse ISO 8601 date strings → Unix ms timestamp (spec returnsnull)starts_with/ends_withwith empty-string prefix/suffix returnsfalse(spec is silent)Link to spec — "JMESPath" in the opening paragraph now links to
https://jmespath.org/Conventional Commit
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