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.cla...@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 > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
