I am interested and I have a CA with Rich, but I'm currently exploring using XOM from Clojure. My first impression is that the API is very clean (as a Java API) and I appreciate its emphasis on correctness. I could see data.xml benefiting from some of the ideas in XOM, if only indirectly. In any event I need to suss out the problem space more thoroughly before it would make sense to hack on data.xml.
// Ben On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ryan Senior <senior.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Solid namespace support is a much needed feature for data.xml. There's a > ticket for it here: http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/DXML-4 though > unfortunately the patch attached to it came from someone who hadn't signed a > CA, so I was not able to accept it. > > I am planning on tackling namespace support soon, but would welcome help if > you're interested (and have signed a CA). > > -Ryan > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Ben Smith-Mannschott > <bsmith.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> TL;DR: I'm looking for a Clojure library that round trips XML+namespaces >> through Clojure data structures and back again. >> >> >> I'm hacking on a chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire solution publish my wife's >> novels as EPUB. I've got most of a prototype of the core functionality >> working, but an stubbing my toe an a lack of what would consider >> sufficient XML support in the Clojure universe. >> >> I'm consuming Apple Pages (heavily namespaced XML) and will need to >> produce XML Plist, XHTML, OPF and NCX, all of which are namespaced as >> well. >> >> My first prototype parser for Pages documents used clojure.xml and >> works, provided Apple never changes the prefixes they use for the >> various namespaces the crop up in a Pages document. This is because >> clojure.xml is absolutely namespace ignorant. Also, there doesn't seem >> to be a way to write clojure.xml out as literal XML. >> >> I'm in the process of switching to clojure.data.xml, but have discovered >> that it parses namespace aware by default, but only uses this in order >> to have a simple way to ignore namespace information without getting >> confused by spurious namespace prefixes. >> >> That would be fine for parsing the Pages document, but it's a >> non-starter for producing my output files since these require the use of >> namespaces. >> >> I've looked at hiccup, which would solve my HTML production problem, >> save for the fact that it produces XHTML 1.0 while my current >> half-manual publishing process uses XHTML 1.1. I expect either version >> would work, but that still leaves me without a solution for Plist, OPF >> and NCX. >> >> >> What are my best options? Am I overlooking a Clojure library that >> already does what I need? I could try to teach data.xml to support XML >> namespaces, but the current half-hearted hack which conflates Clojure >> namespaces with XML namespaces would have to go, I fear. I could instead >> put my time into extending hiccup to support XML more generally, or at >> least provide explicit support for NCX, OPF and PList. Should I just >> write my own library? Maybe I could build atop XOM so as not to reinvent >> the heavy lifting. >> >> // Ben >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
