(getting back to this thread after being without internet for several
days - it's rather an interesting experience)
On 05/19/2017 12:40 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
If we are honest then parsing XML even with LCS's excellent text
chunking isn't
necessarily *that* much 'prettier'. XML is quite a complicated format if
you
want a 100% compliant reader (do we have a 100% compliant XML parser
written in LiveCode?) - hence why, in this case, it would probably be
better
to have a wrapper around a well established XML library in LCB.
Why reinvent a wheel which many other people have already decided needs
reinventing...
I'm not doing this because it's fun. I'm stuck with parsing xml data,
and it's much uglier trying to treat it as a text stream, especially
with a subset of the xtalk chunking functions, than by using the revXML
functions in LCS.
It might be useful to have a list of what xtalk features are available
in LCB, and possibly even more useful to have a list of the features
that *aren't* available in LCB. For instance, the lack of a switch
statement is both surprising and disappointing. What decisions were made
as to what language features to support / remove?
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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