Dear BaseX team, I have a question concerning the availability of the JSON-to-XML transformation. Before asking, this remark: I am very glad and grateful that BaseX offers this functionality (json:parse), as it exposes JSON to XPath, which enables important evaluations that otherwise would not even be attempted. And now my question. Is it possible - does it appear reasonable - to access the functionality within a Java application by calling the BaseX code (org.basex.build.json.JsonParser, I suppose)) immediately, without launching XQuery? I expect that one would be treading dangerous ground, relying on internal APIs which may change any time, not being meant for external use. If this is so, a brief confirmation would suffice to make me drop the idea. Thank you, and kind regards -Hans-Jürgen PS: Background of my question - I evaluate alternative possibilities how to validate JSON within Java applications. One (and probably the best) option is validating against JSON schema (json-schema.org), an alternative would be a to-XML transformation followed by XSD validation. A first experiment lettig BaseX via XQJ execute the epic query "json:parse(.)" revealed a performance which would not be sufficient to be competitive. So I wondered if removing the overhead of launching BaseX might be an approach to consider.