XML parsing

[Sarah Reichelt]

I am actually working on an XML tutorial right now, having had problems 
myself. It's very much a case of starting small, checking all the 
results and building up gradually, but I think I'm getting there now. I 
am away for the next two weeks but hopefully I will have my tutorial 
finished by the time I get back.

When it is ready, I was thinking of offering it to RunRev for inclusion 
with Revolution itself as it seems to fill a blank spot in the current 
docs, but I will also release it on my own web site.

Cheers,
Sarah

On 28 Apr 2004, at 10:08 am, kee nethery wrote:

> I'm playing with the XML libraries and the thing I'm having trouble 
> with is understanding the terminology. The definitions are extremely 
> sparse and because of that I cannot figure out which functions do what 
> I want. What would be extremely useful are examples. Not example code 
> by itself, but example code with defined inputs and what that code 
> does as an output with that input.
>
> for example this is a sample from the docs and it is just one step 
> better than useless:
>
> put revXMLParent(1,"/City/Publisher") into parent
>
> If treeId 1 is:
>
> <City>
>   <Publisher name="easy">
>     <Author>jeff</Author>
>     <Author>mary</Author>
>   </Publisher>
>   <Publisher name="difficult">
>     <Author>bob</Author>
>     <Author>carol</Author>
>   </Publisher>
> </City>
>
> what does "parent" get set to?
>
> What would be really useful is if someone could develop an example 
> tree that can be used to demonstrate all the functions. Then I'll be 
> able to look at the sample code, look at the sample inputs, see which 
> function gets the data I'm looking for, and then use that function.
>
> Right now I have to manually build a tree and then try all the 
> possible functions against it to see which function produces the 
> information I am seeking.
>
> It would be so helpful if the docs had a full example tree and all the 
> example functions used that tree and showed the results they would 
> return.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Kee Nethery
>
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