XML to array - what are the options?

[Keith Clarke]

Thanks Stephen, 
A mutli-dimensional array primer and worked-example stack working on XML file data - just what I needed! 

It turned out to be a newsletter item from 2008 - only linked from the old revolution use list. 
Unfortunately, those links are broken and/or there is a problem with the newsletter archive page - which is currently rendering in a strange way http://www.runrev.com/developers/resources/newsletters/ ?!?

So, here's a direct link for the next seeker of array/XML enlightenment who passes this way... http://runrev.com/newsletter/july/issue53/newsletter1.php 
Best,
Keith..

On 8 May 2011, at 17:41, stephen barncard wrote:

> 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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