any good starter tutorials for using Rev's built in XML?

[Frank Leahy]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 1:34 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
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> From: kee nethery <kee at kagi.com>
> Subject: Re: any good starter tutorials for using Rev's built in XML?
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> If you find a tutorial, please let me know.

Me too.


>
> I think the problem is that XML is a new set of knowledge and the XML
> functions are a new set of functions. If I already understood XML,
> chances are that the functions would make perfect sense to me. But I'm
> learning XML and the functions are not obvious without any context.

Kee, it's not you.  I used Microsoft's MSXML parser extensively for 
Wired/Terra/Lycos for over 4 years, and I know it inside out, but I 
can't for the life of me figure out the RR XML parser.

>
> There is an example XML stack but it is not an XML example stack. It
> does useful work rather than just provide examples of how each function
> would be used.
>

It may exercise many of the XML functions, but it's very difficult to 
track down where they're called.  And it's also not clear that it 
exercise's them all.

> For an XML example stack, I'd like to see sample XML stored in the
> stack, and then how you would use the functions to access the various
> pieces of data in that sample set of XML. I don't want it to do useful
> work. I just want to understand that given this XML, if you use these
> functions, you end up with this result. Then the names of the functions
> and how to use them might become clearer.

It wouldn't seem to be too much to ask for a call by call description, 
with even one simple example for each call.

The code is presumably ported from somewhere else (I doubt they built 
their own parser from scratch) -- the least they could do is point us 
at the docs for the original source.

-- Frank