Brian Faull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you so much for the quick response! I really appreciate it.
Welcome. > I'm trying to do precisely those two things: an ActivePerl module and > generate some example code, so I'll be happy to contribute as soon as I > have my head around the intended usage of the API! Excellent, that will be very helpful. Email the list if you have any API questions - I like to have the answers archived so that other users can locate them in the list archives or in the official: Distributed Tech Library(TM) ... (aka. Google). > I'm trying to do one simple thing... grab the entire contents of the XML > file as a big hash... much like XML::Simple. Ok. That would be a useful application to have. > I've got the tags that have attributes using getAttributes -- very > easy. However, stepping through an element that has a number of > children, then (recursively) constructing a hash is utterly > painful. Since this is DOM, I presume that this structure already > exists in memory anyway... is there any way to access this with > Perl? DomDocument->to_hash()!? I would use the DOMNodeIterator API to automatically walk the tree (you could also use the DOMTreeWalker API, but I think NodeIterator is the officially supported one). Check out t/DOMNodeIterator.t to see how to do it. The trick is to create a filter that only accepts Element nodes, and then keep a stack of the current DOMElement's and you can use the equality operator to test who is the parent of the current node. Let me see if I can whip something up. > I'm sure you get plenty of emails like this -- I'll email the list too. If > you've got a quick solution, though, I'd be happy to entertain it! It's better to email the list - that way it gets archived. Cheers, jas. > Thanks again for your help, > -brian > > > "Jason E. Stewart" wrote: > > > > Brian Faull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm working on a project in Perl that involves a lot of XML parsing, > > > XML::Simple isn't cutting it anymore; we're looking into Xerces; we need > > > to be portable so Win32 support is a must. Xerces looks great except for > > > the no-windows support. > > > > Hi Brian, > > > > My appologies, but the Xerces-p web page is *really* out of date. We > > are at release 2.3.0-3, and yes, there is Win32 support. > > > > Check out the archives of the dev list for Oct and Nov at: > > > > http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/SummarizeList?listId=86 > > > > Martin Raspe has been working on this, and has gotten good results. > > > > > - Is there an archive tarball of the last (1.3.3-try3) Win32-supported > > > release? (can't find it anywhere...) > > > > You should be able to build the existing code with VC++ 6. > > > > > - Need help with the Windows port? Might be able to throw some time > > > at it... > > > > Yes! Martin has been doing great, but I would love to get a packaged > > binary (a PPM module for ActivePerl), plus debugging some of the > > exception handling problems is always appreciated. > > > > Other things would be example code files to include with the project > > or just short tutorials on how to get started. > > > > Cheers, > > jas. > > -- > Brian Faull > Senior Integrated Electronics Engineer > D620 - Communications and Networking > The MITRE Corporation > 202 Burlington Road, MS E015 > Bedford, MA 01730-1420 > V:781.271.5736 F:781.271.8875 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
