Hello Bridger,
It must have been 2 week ago that I was asking the list the very same
question. The answers I got were excellent and put a lot of my
questions to rest.
First, you should check out Sarah Reichelt's excellent demo for revXML,
which is located at: http://www.troz.net/Rev/tutorials/XMLdemo1.rev.gz
After that, check out Ken Ray's XML Parsing Library, which is located
at: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
And finally, I quote Bill Marriott:
The problem with XML is that people can do any old thing they want with it.
While the RULES are ridiculously strict, the implementations can drive you
nuts. For example, look at the cookies.plist file on a Mac. It has a really
wacky setup that I think makes it all but impossible to parse with the
RevXML library without "walking" through it. Its something like:
<person>
<attributes>
<field>Name</field>
<value>Bill</value>
<field>EyeColor</field>
<value>Blue</value>
</attributes>
</person>
Whereas the Rev library seems to make it easier to do something like:
<person name="Bill" eyecolor="blue" />
To be honest, I usually poke around in Sarah's stack and then figure out
which function(s) I need through trial and error. It's just harder for me to
"visualize" what I want to accomplish with XML.
I can say that once you figure out what two or three commands you need to
use to parse an XML file, it's way faster than using chunk expressions or
some other method.
I hope that helps!
Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com/
Bridger Maxwell wrote:
Hey, I am a first time XML user, just testing it out. I noticed that
the text returned by the revXMLText() function has no formatting
(returns, tabs) and isn't very easy to read. Is there a way to
format this so it is easier to read, or would it be best to keep the
XML how it is now? I am not sure what the standard is, but I thought
XML should be formatted to be easy to read, like HTML.
TTFN Bridger Maxwell Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center
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