XML parsing

[Pierre Sahores]

Thanks for doing this, Sarah. Will gratly help me to put my fingers - 
each after an other -, in the XML paradigm ;)

Best, Pierre

Le 28 avr. 04, à 02:23, Sarah Reichelt a écrit :

> 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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