New package announcement: urn-lib.js
Summary and motivation
urn-lib.js is a javascript library for parsing, validating, comparing, and retrieving data associated with CTS (Canonical Text Services) URNs and CITE2 URNs.
Release notes
Initial release. Main features:
- analyze and manipulate CTS URNs and CITE2 URNs
- comparison of CTS URNs and CITE2 URNs based on equality or URN congruence
- retrieve data from delimited-text sources based on URN congruence
Installation
The file urn-lib.js can be downloaded from github and used locally, or loaded vis jsDelivr from https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/neelsmith/urns-lib/urn-lib.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.
Auditing the build:
- github repository includes a complete transcript of the chat used to generate the script, with saved intermediate versions of the javascript library. See the repository README for details.