Support XPath for XML and JSON Pointer for JSON/YAML in validation output in CLI default and SARIF output modes

[aj-stein-gsa]

User Story:

As a developer of OSCAL-based tools, in order to transition between different formats more seamlessly in general and processing validation results in particular, I would like the ability to switch from the default Metapaths in constraints' validation results from Metapath to XPath (1.0 or 3.0 flavors TBD) and JSON Pointer

Goals:

Support for:

• emitting paths in constraint validation results in pure XPath (1.0 or 3.0 up for discussion and confirmation with oscal-cli maintainers)
• emitting path in constraint validation results in pure JSON Pointer (RFC6901)
• capability to automatically switch between them based on input document type (auto-sense XPath for XML, JSON Pointer for JSON/YAML)
• a command-line option at runtime to explicitly mandate the output of one over the other

Dependencies:

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Acceptance Criteria

• All website and readme documentation affected by the changes in this issue have been updated.
• A Pull Request (PR) is submitted that fully addresses the goals of this User Story. This issue is referenced in the PR.
• The CI-CD build process runs without any reported errors on the PR. This can be confirmed by reviewing that all checks have passed in the PR.

[aj-stein-gsa]

NOTE: Per previous discussions, I believe the current preference for JSON/YAML to be JSON Pointer, not JSON Path. However, JSON Path recently achieved RFC status in IETF and also has implementation support. Despite being more recent, it has syntax more in alignment with XPath, so I just wanted to surface this for discussion, see more details below in the relevant docs:

• RFC9535, released in February 2024 in RFC status
• How does jsonpath compare to jsonpointer? #1

/cc @david-waltermire

[david-waltermire]

This will be addressed when the new metaschema-java dependency is picked up due to metaschema-framework/metaschema-java#550.