> Any recommendations? I wonder which language Dick (I love the Groovy) > Wall would pick here... I recall on the podcast Scala Lift having some > issues due to the lack of thread support in the app engine. Is Groovy > therefore the right way to go? Does it make walking XML parse trees > easy, along with generating a new resultant XML document? Or are both > languages "fine choices". I wanted to keep the project simple. >
Groovy would probably be simpler than Scala. You could use Groovy's XMLSlurper to pull the the data you need out of your XML using GPath style expressions and probably avoid the need for recursion. Scala's builtin XML processing facilities are powerful, but I found I needed to understand several other concepts in the language before I could really get to grips with ripping XML apart (there's a reason why XML processing is Chapter 26 of Programming in Scala). Oddly, you might find yourself not using recursion at all (or not that much), instead you could end up primarily using pattern matching with extractors. No matter what, you will probably have to write more code in Scala than in Groovy (at least that's what I've found). Saying that, I'd choose Scala over Java for processing XML any day. Out of interest, how are you going to generate the HTML? Are you going to use templates, or are you planning to generate the HTML in code? Again, the approach will be different depending on which language you choose. Groovy's builders are quite different from Scala's native XML support (and if you use Scala's XML, you're probably going to be generating XHTML like lift does). Scot --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
