Re: Representing XML in tables

[Scott Morgan <blumf@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:

> > Has there been any standerd way of representing a XML document in a lua 
> > table structure defined yet?
> >    
> >
> > <person id="1234">
> > <name>
> >   <first>John</first>
> >   <last>Smith</last>
> > </name>
> > </person>
> >    
>
> I don't know anything about XML, but in Lua this info could be represented as
>
> person{
>  id="1234",
>  {
>   name={first="John", last="Smith"}
>  }
> }
>
>  

Yes, thats the ideal lua way to do it, however XML documents don't 
always work that way and I'm after a generic solution :-(

For example:

<PARENT>
 <CHILD>Timmy</CHILD>
 <CHILD>Tommy</CHILD>
</PARENT>

Is valid XML, but, of course, this:

parent = {
 child = "Timmy",
 child = "Tommy"
}

Isn't valid lua, and is the reason I've knocked up what looks like a 
mess of a structure. But it seems to be the most flexable/sensible way 
to do it.

Basicly I was hoping somebody has already covered this and had some 
utils put up to work with it all. Looks like it might have to be me 
doing this if nobody else has already ;-P

Scott Morgan