Re: Proposal XML Toolbox for Octave

[Andy Adler]

Hi Thomas,

I've been absent from this list for a while (with excuses about a busy life).
I'm glad that you have made progress on this project, I was looking at using
the Xerces parser with the Xpath support, similar to you.

From reading the wiki, it seems that you're planning to build and XML
tool based on the XMLtoolbox from geodise.org.

Some questions and comments:

1. I can't find any license for XMLtoolbox. If you're planning to
     use their code, then this is essential to know. If you simply
     want to be compatible, then that is less of an issue, but
     it would still be nice to use their documentation.

2. I quite like the format of the XMLtoolbox output. I just have a few issues:

    - if each tag is converted into an identifier, how does
      it handle XML like <é- ï$="1" />?

    - the converted format is slightly non-unique. The following
      XML files will  parse identically:

      1. <a> <b> <c> <b> </a>
      2. <a> <b> <b> <c> </a>

      (this is probably not a big deal, and I can suggest a small
       modification to fix it)

3. I would very much like to see a parser that accepts an XPath
    statement to only parse a part of a file. It may be possible
    to add this later.


--
Andy Adler

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Thomas Geiger wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
>
> I know people are quite busy with testing/releasing of 2.10, but still its
> time for an update regarding the XML import/export project.
> I've summarized the work in the wiki (
> http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?XMLToolboxPort) and I'm looking forward
> regarding feedback.
> Andy, hopefully you didn't do too much on your solution, or maybe we should
> merge.
>
>
> kind regards,
> tom