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- Subject: Re: What would be a good representation of XML tree as Lua tables?
- From: Marc Balmer <marc@...>
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 19:50:59 +0200
> Am 22.08.2016 um 05:38 schrieb Martin <eden_martin_fuhrspam@gmx.de>:
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> On 16-08-21 07:45 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> I am working on code to easily create XML trees from Lua tables. What would,
>> in your opinion, be a comfortable Lua table notation of XML trees, expressed
>> as Lua tables?
>>
> For me for structure like
>
> <data>
> <el attr1="value1", attr2="value2">
> el_data
> </el>
> <el attr1="value1", attr2="value2">
> el_data
> </el>
> </data>
>
> expressions "xml.data.el[1].value" or
> "xml.data.el[#xml.data.el].attrs['attr2']" looks convenient.
>
I don't want to access XML from Lua, I want to represent data as Lua tables,
which can then be converted to XML. I want to _PRODUCE_ xml, not parse
it.