Re: XML Support for Penlight?

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Mar 28, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Lucas Zawacki wrote:

>  In
> the end of the day it's more about the mindset of the coder, in Lua
> people tend to like it very simple.

Talking of which, I like David Sklar's BadgerFish convention for translating an XML document into a Lua table:

http://ajaxian.com/archives/badgerfish-translating-xml-to-json

Here is a simplistic implementation:

http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/XML.lua

Usage example:

local XML = require( 'XML' )
local anXML = XML( aContent ) -- e.g. http://www.lua.org/news.rss

print( anXML.rss.channel.description[ '$' ] )

> What's happening in the Lua world.