Hello, I'm trying to process the bookmarks.xml file created by the Chimera webbrowser. If you have Chimera, this file is at ~/Library/Application Support/Chimera/Profiles.
What I want is to create a very simple html page from bookmarks.xml. I'm using XML::Twig for that, but I have found a strange behavior and after perusing the documentation for XML::Twig<http://www.xmltwig.com/>, I didn't see an answer. I know that I could contact the author, but I rather check here first. ========================================== Here's an example of a bookmarks.xml file: ========================================== <bookmarks xmlns="http://chimera.mozdev.org/bookmarks/";> <folder name="Toolbar Bookmarks" type="toolbar" open="true"> <bookmark name="Chimera" href="http://chimera.mozdev.org/installation.html"; /> <bookmark name="Mozilla.Org" href="http://www.mozilla.org"; /> <folder name="News" open="true"> <bookmark name="Daily Daemon News" href="http://daily.daemonnews.org/"; /> <bookmark name="Cyberpresse" href="http://www.cyberpresse.ca/"; /> <bookmark name="CNN" href="http://www.cnn.com"; /> </folder> </folder> <folder name="OS X" open="true"> <bookmark name="OSXFAQ" href="http://www.osxfaq.com/"; /> </folder> </bookmarks> ========================================== Here's my script: ========================================== use strict; use XML::Twig; my $fbookmarks = '/Users/username/Desktop/bookmarks.xml'; my $xmlheader = qq/<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>\n/; my $bookmarks; open (FH, $fbookmarks); { local $/; $bookmarks = <FH>; } close (FH); $bookmarks = $xmlheader . $bookmarks; my $twig = XML::Twig->new( KeepEncoding => 1, TwigHandlers => { 'folder' => \&formatfolder, 'bookmark' => \&formatbookmark } ); $twig->parse($bookmarks); $twig->purge; my $s; sub formatfolder { my ($twig, $elem) = @_; $s .= "<h4>" . $elem->att("name") . "</h4>\n"; } sub formatbookmark { my ($twig, $elem) = @_; $s .= "<a href='" . $elem->att("href") . "'>" . $elem->att("name") . "</a><br>\n"; } print "<htm><body>\n$s\n</body></html>"; ========================================== What I'd like to get is this output: ========================================== <htm><body> <h4>Toolbar Bookmarks</h4> <a href='http://chimera.mozdev.org/installation.html'>Chimera</a><br> <a href='http://www.mozilla.org'>Mozilla.Org</a><br> <h4>News</h4> <a href='http://daily.daemonnews.org/'>Daily Daemon News</a><br> <a href='http://www.cyberpresse.ca/'>Cyberpresse</a><br> <a href='http://www.cnn.com'>CNN</a><br> <h4>OS X</h4> <a href='http://www.osxfaq.com/'>OSXFAQ</a><br> </body></html> ========================================== But I get this instead: ========================================== <htm><body> <a href='http://chimera.mozdev.org/installation.html'>Chimera</a><br> <a href='http://www.mozilla.org'>Mozilla.Org</a><br> <a href='http://daily.daemonnews.org/'>Daily Daemon News</a><br> <a href='http://www.cyberpresse.ca/'>Cyberpresse</a><br> <a href='http://www.cnn.com'>CNN</a><br> <h4>News</h4> <h4>Toolbar Bookmarks</h4> <a href='http://www.osxfaq.com/'>OSXFAQ</a><br> <h4>OS X</h4> </body></html> ========================================== As you see, it look like XML::Twig is processing from inward to outward, so all the bookmark nodes are processed before the folder nodes, so the handler formatbookmark is called before formatfolder. I'm surprise by this behavior, but maybe I'm missing something here. TIA Cheers -Emmanuel -- ______________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel D�carie / Programmation pour le Web - Programming for the Web Frontier - Perl - PHP - Javascript - XML <http://scriptdigital.com/>
