Re: XML

2001-05-29 Thread Chris Benson

On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 09:48:28AM +0100, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
> 
> Anyway, does anyone know of any XML authoring tools (any platform) that let you 
>compose XML against a Schema (latest spec), enforcing validation as you go?
> 
> XML-Spy seems great in most respects but appears to have bugs in this last one.

We've been using 0.9x versions of epcEdit for the last few months 
(http://www.tksgml.de/ maybe moved to http://www.epcedit.de/)  but the
recently released v1.0 only gives 60?90? days use before requiring
payment.  It has crashed a few times (usually on Widnos) but we've
used it to create a 300+ page book and will do a second next month.

Win32, Linux/i386 and Solaris versions available.  Uses Tcl/Tk and a
custom library.  Some niggles with the user interface (cursor moving
off-screen during a large paste, ...) but it absolutely enforces the
schema and can show list the valid tags at each point.

We'll be buying it before the end of June for I think c. us$400
-- 
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XML

2001-05-29 Thread Jonathan Peterson



Hi folx,

Why is it that every time I spend 2 hours working with XML I discover a new twist that 
makes everything more complex than it used to be? And that's deliberately ignoring the 
advanced stuff.

Anyway, does anyone know of any XML authoring tools (any platform) that let you 
compose XML against a Schema (latest spec), enforcing validation as you go?

XML-Spy seems great in most respects but appears to have bugs in this last one.


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Re: OT: parsing xml

2001-04-11 Thread Leon Brocard

Mike Jarvis sent the following bits through the ether:

> Has anybody dealt with the data exchange xml standard called BMEcat?
> I've got to hack a parser together quickly and I was hoping to nick
> somebody else's code.

It appears that no-one has answered this. In general, I find
XML::Simple very useful (and simple!) for dealing with XML data
structures. If you need anything more fancy, look into
XML::XPath. Always remember to cache aggressively whenever you use
XML.

HTH, Leon
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OT: parsing xml

2001-04-04 Thread Mike Jarvis

Sorry, no Buffy content follows:

Has anybody dealt with the data exchange xml standard called BMEcat?
I've got to hack a parser together quickly and I was hoping to nick
somebody else's code.

CPAN has a XML::BMEcat module, but it's aimed more at creating BMEcat
files rather than reading them.  The spec is incredibly icky
(www.bmecat.org if you read german), and I really really really don't
want to have to do this.  All I need to do is shove a BMEcat feed in a
db somewhere and I'm happy.

Help me get the hell out of Texas.  I hate flying into Bush
Intercontinental.

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XML One London

2001-03-15 Thread pmh

Is anyone going to XML One London next week? I'll be there until Wednesday,
but the Thursday didn't look any use to me.

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Greg Cope

Andy Wardley wrote:
> 
> On Jan 12,  3:57pm, Greg Cope wrote:
> > Is such a thing as Apache::Template being done or is it a pipedream [TM]
> 
> No, it's real, just not officially finished or released.  Someone sent
> me some new code for it which I'll be intergrating and releasing in the
> next week or so.

Thanks

Look forward to it.

Greg

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> 
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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Andy Wardley

On Jan 12,  3:57pm, Greg Cope wrote:
> Is such a thing as Apache::Template being done or is it a pipedream [TM]

No, it's real, just not officially finished or released.  Someone sent
me some new code for it which I'll be intergrating and releasing in the
next week or so.


A

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Greg Cope

David Hodgkinson wrote:
> 
> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
> 
> No. I'm writing a poor man's intro to stapling the TT into a mod_perl
> handler that will be superceded by Apache::Template when Andy finishes
> it.

What's this ?

or rather:

Is this for take23 ?
Is such a thing as Apache::Template being done or is it a pipedream [TM]
?
If Apache::Template is real - where can I find out more ?

Greg

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread David Hodgkinson

David Hodgkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > > The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
> 
> No. I'm writing a poor man's intro to stapling the TT into a mod_perl
> handler that will be superceded by Apache::Template when Andy finishes
> it.

...to go on Matt's site...

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread David Hodgkinson

David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..

No. I'm writing a poor man's intro to stapling the TT into a mod_perl
handler that will be superceded by Apache::Template when Andy finishes
it.

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Natalie Ford

At 23:58 11/01/01, grep wrote:
>The Final YAPC::Europe 2000 Site   - me + LB + JP

So, I am not needed, now?  ;-)  No worries - all the more time for me to 
read Dave's book... ;-)




Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread David Cantrell

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:58:36PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:

> so as far as i see it - we have the following projects to be carried out
> by london.pm and others ...
> 
> Caml (i'll leave that typo as it might get mjd excited) Visit  - David Cross
> Completion of account creation for initial donators, 
>  establishment of a administration committee and setting
>  criteria for new donators - Jo + D.Cross
> The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
> The Final YAPC::Europe 2000 Site   - me + LB + JP

Also:

  T-shirts   - DAV-R-CAN

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-12 Thread Greg McCarroll

* Neil Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >so as far as i see it - we have the following projects to be carried out
> >by london.pm and others ...
> >
> >Caml (i'll leave that typo as it might get mjd excited) Visit  - David Cross
> >Completion of account creation for initial donators,
> >  establishment of a administration committee and setting
> >  criteria for new donators - Jo + D.Cross
> >The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
> >The Final YAPC::Europe 2000 Site   - me + LB + JP
> >
> So you won't be needing Natalie's help with the website then? Someone 
> perhaps ought to tell her before she does much more work trying to 
> get the schedules together.
> 

err no, sorry for leaving her name off, it would be great if she could help!

(the list was done late last night in a hope to move things forward)

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Re: XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-11 Thread Neil Ford

[snip]
>
>so as far as i see it - we have the following projects to be carried out
>by london.pm and others ...
>
>Caml (i'll leave that typo as it might get mjd excited) Visit  - David Cross
>Completion of account creation for initial donators,
>  establishment of a administration committee and setting
>  criteria for new donators - Jo + D.Cross
>The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
>The Final YAPC::Europe 2000 Site   - me + LB + JP
>
So you won't be needing Natalie's help with the website then? Someone 
perhaps ought to tell her before she does much more work trying to 
get the schedules together.

Neil.
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XML::Schema, YAPC::Europe, mod_perl, Camel Visit, !RANT!

2001-01-11 Thread Greg McCarroll

* David Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "David H. Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:07:20PM +, Andy Wardley wrote:
> > 
> > > In all fairness, I have to say that mailman is an *excellent* mailing
> > > list manager.
> > 
> > So why haven't you reimplemented it in perl?  :)
> 
> As an XML and perl based application server?
> 

don't you go thinking about that Dave, your pencilled in to delivering
this mod_perl solutions website you spoke about perviously ;-)

it seems to me at the last technical meeting we had a lot of enthusiasm
for this, and i'd guess we'll have a lot of enthusiasm for the XML::Schema
stuff this time - what we need to do is to form SIG's of london.pm to
drive these project forward

so as far as i see it - we have the following projects to be carried out
by london.pm and others ...

Caml (i'll leave that typo as it might get mjd excited) Visit  - David Cross
Completion of account creation for initial donators, 
 establishment of a administration committee and setting
 criteria for new donators - Jo + D.Cross
The Mod Perl Evangelist Site   - Dave Hodge..
The Final YAPC::Europe 2000 Site   - me + LB + JP

i'm pretty sure that these are the tasks we have at the minute as a 
group/community



ok the above seem's pretty anal but i get the feeling we need to 
add a bit of `` `` project management '' '' [1] to the group for 
the benefit of Perl - and this is a subject i'd love to see a
thread on



ok yes i know, this is whole mail has probably been purely been caused by
my lower alchohol levels for january, but i can't help it - goddamnit i
love perl and i love london.pm and i want london.pm to work to help perl

-greg

[1] double double quotes to indicate how much removed this is from the 
crap some of us suffer at work

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RE: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Jonathan Peterson

>
> How does the output compare to XML::Simple::XMLout() ?
>

I found XML::Simple::XMLout() to be deeply yucky, as it kind of randomly
chooses to go for sub elements or attributes based on phases of the moon*.
Also, it will happily output invalid XML if you have invalid data in your
datastructure. Also it dies if given recursive structures. And it doesn't do
binary data.

I've found XML::Writer to be OK, although it doesn't do an 'export this data
structure as XML' thing. You could use it write your own though. Or use
XML::Dumper, I guess.



*Something like all single nested items are made into attributes, or, if you
prefer, nothing is made into attributes. Ick.




Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Mike Wyer

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dean S Wilson wrote:

>I've been involved in the debates on this list about Perl and Java and
>I'd thought I'd say something nice for once.
>
>I've just spent three hours playing with XML::Generator and md5
>checksums, I was having problems building hash's of hash's with the
>module (Seems to only add the last one in a foreach loop to the XML.
>Gotta be me :)) and then with a quick glance at cpan I found
>XML::Dumper. I don't know if I'm the only one here who didn't know
>about this module but its Data::Dumper that outputs well formed xml.
>Two minutes to read the docs and make a quick test script and tada!
>Well formed xml files of my structures ready to be used. In under five
>additional lines of code.

How does the output compare to XML::Simple::XMLout() ?

Cheers,
Mike
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Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Greg McCarroll

* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> 
> > There are a few crypto modules on CPAN, although they all use C for the
> > hard work.  Whether they're available in PPMs for Activestate or not,
> > I don't know.
> 
> I'm doing a pure WML script implementation of MD5 at the moment that'd
> be dead easy to port to Perl. Especially since Perl has things like
> arrays which I always find useful for this sort of thing, grumble,
> grumble, Wap rhymes with cr

MIND THE WAP



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Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-09 Thread Simon Wistow


> There are a few crypto modules on CPAN, although they all use C for the
> hard work.  Whether they're available in PPMs for Activestate or not,
> I don't know.

I'm doing a pure WML script implementation of MD5 at the moment that'd
be dead easy to port to Perl. Especially since Perl has things like
arrays which I always find useful for this sort of thing, grumble,
grumble, Wap rhymes with cr



Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-08 Thread Benjamin Holzman

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:06:28PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:
> I've just spent three hours playing with XML::Generator and md5
> checksums, I was having problems building hash's of hash's with the
> module (Seems to only add the last one in a foreach loop to the XML.
> Gotta be me :)) and then with a quick glance at cpan I found
> XML::Dumper. I don't know if I'm the only one here who didn't know

XML::Dumper sounds like the right solution for your problem, but FWIW,
here's how I might do it with XML::Generator:

use XML::Generator;
my $gen = XML::Generator->new('conformance' => 'strict', 'escape' => 1);
sub gen { ref $_[0] eq "HASH"
? $gen->hash(map { $gen->key($_), $gen->value(gen($_[0]->{$_})) } 
keys %{$_[0]})
: $_[0] }
my $xml = gen({ hash => { of => "hashes" }});

Ben

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Re: Much Coolness XML Wise.

2001-01-08 Thread David Cantrell

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:06:28PM -, Dean S Wilson wrote:

> PS Does anyone know of any decent resources for perl crypto? (Other
> than counterpane.com)

Counterpane don't really have any perl stuff - or much crypto stuff :-)
although Schneier's monthly Cryptogram is worth subscribing too.

There are a few crypto modules on CPAN, although they all use C for the
hard work.  Whether they're available in PPMs for Activestate or not,
I don't know.

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