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Have you looked at XML-QL? I have been playing around with this XML query tool for a few weeks. It's quite nice. It allows you to specify the grammer of extracted data, query multiple XML documents, etc. See: <http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/xmlql> /Roger Ed Howland wrote: > > Ok, so now it is April (or thereabouts) and still no XQL. I've read all the > hypeware about this and I understand that its just a suggestion for a > proposal for a note for a draft for a recommendation. Whatever. > I want my XQL! > > Seriously, all ranting aside, I haven't seen any talk here or in XSL > listserv land about it yet (recently). The proposal seems complete enough to > me for someone to have at least announced a beta implementation of it. I'd > be happy with mostly unfinshed code if it were written in Java. > > So does anybody have a clue about this? I know about XSL so please don't > send me down that path. I also know about the Datachannel attempt. > > If not, I'm tempted to write something myself. I'm not sure about a couple > of things because its still just off the top of my head so far. > > Ok, its in Java. It uses some free XML parser, probably XML4J because its > the one I'm most familiar with. The XQL syntax parser will be written in > ANTLR, since it outputs nice O-O Java classes. The result set of XQL is well > formed XML. This can be handled easily by XML4J's ability of any node in any > tree (or transformed sub-tree) to print itself in XML to any stream. XML4J > has a nice getNodesByName() mathod that can operate at any level of the tree > returning a NodeList of siblings with that tag name. Wrapping a result tree > in <xql:result></xql:result> and iterating the NodeList gets you the > simplist query. > > Internally the result set is just another DOM tree so you should be able to > add the .jar file to your Java app and thus satisfy that type of XQL result. > The input can be done in a variety of ways. I assume that the Perl module > XML::XQL can be used in a CGI context to extract the XQL query, execute it > and return either XML or XSL transformed output to the calling app(browser.) > Likewise, a Java servlet could do the same thing. > > Cons: Xml4J doesn't yet handle PI's so its maybe not the overall best > solution. (I may be wrong about this, IBM uploaded a new major release that > may have fixed it.) Its just the one I'm comfortable with, at the moment. On > my hard drive are XML parsers from Sun, Microsoft, Oracle, James Clark and > one or two others I haven't had time to play with yet. > > I don't care about efficiency or optimization. All partially created result > sets will live in memory till they are ready to be output. I also don't care > about searching multiple files, although that should be realtively easy to > add. (I'm still confused about XML repositorys. Would XQL have to understand > directory paths? Does XQL need to be able to follow XLinks?) > > I'm leaving out sequences but I may add them in (much) later. Return values > (analog to SQL's SELECT) are important to my application, as are > conditionals. > > Unless someone warns me that I'm clueless (which is usually the case,) I'll > post a cut of the ANTLR grammer as soon as I get a working one. I'll > probably put it on my web site. > > Ed > > Ed Howland > ed@d... > http://www.dega.com > "As your attorney, I advise you to take some adrenalchrome" > > xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... > Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > (un)subscribe xml-dev > To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; > subscribe xml-dev-digest > List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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