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> (I am not a Java person so I don't know the syntax for doing the following > in Java...) I'm no Java-phile either ;-) > The idea is to > > 1) have a textual representation of an XML document as a Python program > 2) be able to re-create textual representations of XML document structures > as Python programs I've done essentially the same thing for Tcl. My XML parser emits a "Heirarchical Tcl List Representation" of an XML document. For example: set doc {<?XML VERSION="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE MEMO SYSTEM "memo.dtd"> <MEMO REF="1234"> <TO>Audience</TO> <FROM>Steve</FROM> <MESSAGE>This is XML!</MESSAGE> </MEMO>} XML::parse $doc returns ==> parse:pi ?XML {VERSION 1.0} {} parse:pi !DOCTYPE {SYSTEM memo.dtd} {} parse:elem MEMO {REF 1234} { parse:elem TO {} { parse:text Audience {} {} } parse:elem FROM {} { parse:text Steve {} {} } parse:elem MESSAGE {} { parse:text {This is XML!} {} {} } } (above has been edited slightly for email-readability) This representation has two features: it can be easily manipulated as a list, especially with the dummy arguments to parse:pi and parse:text, and it can be passed to the `eval' command for execution - the element contents are themselves scripts. > 1) Such structures give an immediate API in the form of Lispy list > processing stuff. > 2) Such structures allow parsers to be compared / checked for correct > interpretation of XML. > 3) Such structures give developers something to aim at when developing XML > markup aware tools. Agreed, and the similarity of our (independent) approaches is noteworthy. My only comment is that (2) is modulo list syntax. Cheers, Steve Ball xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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