If only there were some kind of structured query language we could invent that allowed us to choose the fields and records we needed to look at. We could get some kind of standards institute to ratify it so everyone used the same interface.
how about some way to validate streamed data against a schema? Offering such advanced features as ... an array with a single element? Or even crazier, enumerated values.
Maybe even a way to transform streams using a selector-based query syntax. What a world ...
A pipedream, I know. A crazy, wild pipedream.