Recreating a binary stack from xml text

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http://www.inspiredlogic.com/mc/ripper.html

I created mcRipper oh so many years ago. MC = MetaCard gives you some idea how long ago. As I recall it handled just about everything, but I haven't touched it in over ten years. Anyone is free to take a look and laugh at my code. 

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On Feb 18, 2012, at 2:07 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Pete-
> 
> Saturday, February 18, 2012, 11:33:51 AM, you wrote:
> 
>> I saw a post earlier in this thread that perhaps Mark Wieder might be
>> working on something along these lines.  Mark, can you comment?
> 
> If revOnline ever comes back (hello rev team?) I'll post a stack that
> does the translations.
> 
> Getting to an from xml format isn't that much of a problem technically
> now that ids are no longer immutable. What's a bit more of a brain
> teaser is preserving the object hierarchy at the same time. I opted
> for individual xml files for each control, card, and stack, as well as
> a project xml file that describes how the objects are organized. That
> way you can create the entire stack from the xml descriptions or just
> pick out individual controls and recreate them.
> 
> Creating an object from the xml description is a matter of looping
> through the properties, as in
> 
> -- in a try construct to handle read-only properties
> try
>  set the <property> of <object> to <attribute>
> catch e
> end try
> 
> <stack>
> <card>
>  <group>
>   <control>
>    <property>
>    </property>
>   </control>
>  </group>
>  <control>
>  </control>
> </card>
> <substack>
> ... etc
> </substack>
> </stack>
> 
> -- 
> -Mark Wieder
> mwieder at ahsoftware.net
> 
> 
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