Re: Lua+XML

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Asko Kauppi wrote:

> What I mean by 'seamless' is really, truly, that.  Like dofile( 
> "mydata.xml" ) and getting a Lua table returned.  Hmm.. anyone up for it?

i wrote one in my early lua days, which does about that.
from memory i think it also allowed xpath syntax.

if you want that as-is to see if it suits, i can mail it to you.

(from my earlier post)

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this one is a sax-type callback parser, which can
1/ parse (but not interpret) embedded DTD's
2/ handle html-type naked and value-less attributes
3/ handle html-type overlapping tags (sort-of)

i ported this because it is block-based, maintaining state between 
calls, so you can parse an xml stream as a sequence of chunks.
approx 26 kb of source (not production quality, yet)
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Adrian