Re: XML to array - what are the options?
On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Keith Clarke keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk wrote: Thanks Stephen, A mutli-dimensional array primer and worked-example stack working on XML file data - just what I needed! Keith, The latest version of the routines can be found on revOnline: http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/571/XMLAndArrays -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems LiveCode Resources for Developers: http://livecode.bluemangolearning.com Get SQL Yoga as part of the Omegabundle for LiveCode 2011: Save 85% on essential tools for LiveCode development - omegabundle.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: XML to array - what are the options?
Hi Trevor, Thanks for the steer, the stack update - and for creating and sharing this great resource! Best, Keith.. On 9 May 2011, at 13:21, Trevor DeVore wrote: Keith, The latest version of the routines can be found on revOnline: http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/571/XMLAndArrays -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems LiveCode Resources for Developers: http://livecode.bluemangolearning.com Get SQL Yoga as part of the Omegabundle for LiveCode 2011: Save 85% on essential tools for LiveCode development - omegabundle.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
XML to array - what are the options?
Hi folks, I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays. There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research. What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this? Best, Keith.. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: XML to array - what are the options?
On May 8, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays. There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research. What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this? A good start... http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm#xmllib211 by Ken Ray has an XML library that is state of the art. I spoke with Ken last week at the conference and he said that his lib was not faster than the Rev XML, but had some better features. The few times I did any work with parsing XML boiled down to text chunking rather than using an XML lib. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: XML to array - what are the options?
Jim. Thanks for the response. Apologies - my question should have been more specific - about concepts, techniques and examples of applying arrays to manipulating XML data, rather than tools. Notwithstanding that, it's good to know that Ken's library is the state of the art, as I been using the paid-for v2.1, with its excellent workshop tool (alongside Mark Wider's libSOAP library) to interrogate various web services and gain a basic understanding of XML data files I want to target. With these, I now have found some potentially interesting XML data that I want to process. So, I'm trying to learn how I might apply arrays to this data, in the following specific scenarios: 1. Display data, from a specific node in a single XML file, a set number of node layers, in rTree as a 'node outline' or 'flattened' into a data grid. 2. Create a new 'related' data set from two XML files with common nodes. If the source data was in database tables, CSV files or spreadsheets, I'd be in my comfort zone and know what to do. I understand outlines and can see how I could combine XML files manually - and so could probably build-up some text-manipulation scripts from scratch. But there must be a simpler, higher-level, repeatable and more efficient way of doing this. Any ideas gratefully received. Best, Keith.. On 8 May 2011, at 14:58, Jim Ault wrote: On May 8, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays. There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research. What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this? A good start... http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm#xmllib211 by Ken Ray has an XML library that is state of the art. I spoke with Ken last week at the conference and he said that his lib was not faster than the Rev XML, but had some better features. The few times I did any work with parsing XML boiled down to text chunking rather than using an XML lib. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: XML to array - what are the options?
Search the archives - Trevor has released his xml-to-array and array-to-xml routines to this list. They were short enough to paste into an email. On 8 May 2011 09:00, Keith Clarke keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.ukwrote: Jim. Thanks for the response. Apologies - my question should have been more specific - about concepts, techniques and examples of applying arrays to manipulating XML data, rather than tools. Notwithstanding that, it's good to know that Ken's library is the state of the art, as I been using the paid-for v2.1, with its excellent workshop tool (alongside Mark Wider's libSOAP library) to interrogate various web services and gain a basic understanding of XML data files I want to target. With these, I now have found some potentially interesting XML data that I want to process. So, I'm trying to learn how I might apply arrays to this data, in the following specific scenarios: 1. Display data, from a specific node in a single XML file, a set number of node layers, in rTree as a 'node outline' or 'flattened' into a data grid. 2. Create a new 'related' data set from two XML files with common nodes. If the source data was in database tables, CSV files or spreadsheets, I'd be in my comfort zone and know what to do. I understand outlines and can see how I could combine XML files manually - and so could probably build-up some text-manipulation scripts from scratch. But there must be a simpler, higher-level, repeatable and more efficient way of doing this. Any ideas gratefully received. Best, Keith.. On 8 May 2011, at 14:58, Jim Ault wrote: On May 8, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays. There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research. What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this? A good start... http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm#xmllib211 by Ken Ray has an XML library that is state of the art. I spoke with Ken last week at the conference and he said that his lib was not faster than the Rev XML, but had some better features. The few times I did any work with parsing XML boiled down to text chunking rather than using an XML lib. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: XML to array - what are the options?
Thanks Stephen, A mutli-dimensional array primer and worked-example stack working on XML file data - just what I needed! It turned out to be a newsletter item from 2008 - only linked from the old revolution use list. Unfortunately, those links are broken and/or there is a problem with the newsletter archive page - which is currently rendering in a strange way http://www.runrev.com/developers/resources/newsletters/ ?!? So, here's a direct link for the next seeker of array/XML enlightenment who passes this way... http://runrev.com/newsletter/july/issue53/newsletter1.php Best, Keith.. On 8 May 2011, at 17:41, stephen barncard wrote: Search the archives - Trevor has released his xml-to-array and array-to-xml routines to this list. They were short enough to paste into an email. On 8 May 2011 09:00, Keith Clarke keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.ukwrote: Jim. Thanks for the response. Apologies - my question should have been more specific - about concepts, techniques and examples of applying arrays to manipulating XML data, rather than tools. Notwithstanding that, it's good to know that Ken's library is the state of the art, as I been using the paid-for v2.1, with its excellent workshop tool (alongside Mark Wider's libSOAP library) to interrogate various web services and gain a basic understanding of XML data files I want to target. With these, I now have found some potentially interesting XML data that I want to process. So, I'm trying to learn how I might apply arrays to this data, in the following specific scenarios: 1. Display data, from a specific node in a single XML file, a set number of node layers, in rTree as a 'node outline' or 'flattened' into a data grid. 2. Create a new 'related' data set from two XML files with common nodes. If the source data was in database tables, CSV files or spreadsheets, I'd be in my comfort zone and know what to do. I understand outlines and can see how I could combine XML files manually - and so could probably build-up some text-manipulation scripts from scratch. But there must be a simpler, higher-level, repeatable and more efficient way of doing this. Any ideas gratefully received. Best, Keith.. On 8 May 2011, at 14:58, Jim Ault wrote: On May 8, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays. There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research. What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this? A good start... http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm#xmllib211 by Ken Ray has an XML library that is state of the art. I spoke with Ken last week at the conference and he said that his lib was not faster than the Rev XML, but had some better features. The few times I did any work with parsing XML boiled down to text chunking rather than using an XML lib. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
