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using xml
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:07 pm
by Dmi
Does anybody have a nice tricks for converting xml data into a traditional list structure?
xml-parse does the one-to-one conversion of symbolic xml structure to a list.
But I need to extract some particular data from xml into simple nested list structure, that can be easily processed with newlisp. And to skip all other unwanted tags and data.
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:14 pm
by Lutz
There is a function called 'xml-type-tags' used to customize the output. If you put all tags to 'nil' you get streight Lisp expressions with no XML type tags. Or you can modify tags to your needs.
Its all in the manual.
Lutz
Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:24 pm
by Lutz
... in case you investigated those possibilities already and it did not help you, perhaps you can give us an example how you want to translate something.
Lutz
Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:06 am
by Dmi
Yes, I know about xml-type-tags :-)
I have a hardly structured data, say the xml output from "xlhtml" convertor.
The structure is about that:
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excel_workbook
sheets
author
issuing-date
other-key-fields
sheet
sheet-name
a-bunch-of-unwanted-keys
row
keys-with-style-info
cell
keys-with-style-info
rownum
colnum
something...
cell-data
There also are some other intermediate levels of nesting.
Generally, I want to
quick-parse this structure to extract only theese info:
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((sheet1-name
((cell-data-for-row-1 cell-data-for-row-1....)
(cell-data-for-row-2 ....)))
(sheet2-name
((cell-data-for-row-2 ...))))
I.e., I want to extract data and nesting only about some keys and skip other info.
I can see a way to imlement some traditional possibilities (say, hook-based parsing), but, possible anyone done it already?