XML to array - what are the options?

[stephen barncard]

Search the archives - Trevor has released his xml-to-array and array-to-xml
routines to this list. They were short enough to paste into an email.

On 8 May 2011 09:00, Keith Clarke <keith.clarke at clarkeandclarke.co.uk>wrote:

> Jim.
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Apologies - my question should have been more specific - about concepts,
> techniques and examples of applying arrays to manipulating XML data, rather
> than tools.
>
> Notwithstanding that, it's good to know that Ken's library is the state of
> the art, as I been using the paid-for v2.1, with its excellent workshop tool
> (alongside Mark Wider's libSOAP library) to interrogate various web services
> and gain a basic understanding of XML data files I want to target.
>
> With these, I now have found some potentially interesting XML data that I
> want to process. So, I'm trying to learn how I might apply arrays to this
> data, in the following specific scenarios:
>
> 1. Display data, from a specific node in a single XML file, a set number of
> node layers, in rTree as a 'node outline' or 'flattened' into a data grid.
>
> 2. Create a new 'related' data set from two XML files with common nodes. If
> the source data was in database tables, CSV files or spreadsheets, I'd be in
> my comfort zone and know what to do. I understand outlines and can see how I
> could combine XML files manually - and so could probably build-up some
> text-manipulation scripts from scratch. But there must be a simpler,
> higher-level, repeatable and more efficient way of doing this.
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
> Best,
> Keith..
>
> On 8 May 2011, at 14:58, Jim Ault wrote:
>
> > On May 8, 2011, at 3:03 AM, Keith Clarke wrote:
> >
> >> Hi folks,
> >> I need to start learning about how best to convert XML files to arrays.
> >> There seems to be quite a lot of content around on this subject, so I'd
> really appreciate any pointers for where best to start my research.
> >> What is the state of the art regarding tools and techniques - and are
> there any stacks or tutorials that have helped others with this?
> >
> > A good start...
> > http://www.sonsothunder.com/home/home.htm#xmllib211
> >
> > by Ken Ray
> > has an XML library that is state of the art.
> > I spoke with Ken last week at the conference and he said that his lib was
> not faster than the Rev XML, but had some better features.
> >
> > The few times I did any work with parsing XML boiled down to text
> chunking rather than using an XML lib.
> >
> >
> > Jim Ault
> > Las Vegas
>
>
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