New package announcement: cex.js
Summary and motivation
cex.js is a javascript library for working with CEX data sources in a web browser or other javascript environment.
The Homer Multitext project publishes its data releases in a single, plain-text document on github. (The current release is always available at this URL.) The release file follows the Cite EXchange format (CEX), defined here.
The javascript library in cex.js simplifies working with CEX data in a web browser or other javascript environment.
Release notes
Initial release. Main features:
- load and parse CEX data from string values, local files or URLs
- discover CEX block labels, read contents of blocks by label
- discover data models, and find collections implementing a model
- retrieve a delimited-text table for the contents of all blocks of a given type
Installation
The file cex.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/cex-lib/cex.js.
Documentation
- available on github
Source
- available on github
Caveats
The javascript library and the markdown documentation were written entirely by gemini-2.5-pro. The code passes a series of sanity tests, but I have not even looked at the javascript. When I encountered errors, I let gemini fix them. Use the code as you like, but be aware that I have no idea what it does or how it works.