Addons support for handling XML data seems to be a little thinner in J804 than it was for j602. In fact on a cursory glance through Package Manager I can't find any. I'd rather not write my own if someone has already done it.
This is potentially a very wide-ranging request, so let me focus a bit. Apple is heavily into XML for every purpose involving storage and inter-application communication of structured data. Conversion tools abound. Just about every Objective-C library object of any complexity can i/o its stored data as XML (…to a file, maybe piped, or straight to another object). This isn't used just for OS X but also virtually unchanged for iOS, iWatch and iTV --which are the growth areas for saleable apps. I'm playing with top-ends written in Objective-C to communicate with a J daemon (hacking JHS for the purpose) and the easiest way to get back complex data from an Apple app window view into J is in the form of XML, in one of the standardized Apple formats. Particularly the ubiquitous plist format. It would be nice to find that someone has written verbs to convert a plist into a 2-column nested noun of keys and corresponding strings, and vice-versa. Or that someone has written an XML parser using DTD (Document Type Declaration), which would be needed to handle tree-based data, data from grids, svg, etc. I'd hazard a guess that suitable verbs lie buried in the guts of JHS for the purpose of parsing HTML, but I know too little about JHS internals to recognize them. I get the idea JHS is geared to sending HTML and getting back AJAX. Not sending/receiving XML. I'd love to be proved wrong. Ian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
