Re: Lua+XML = forced love? (Re: FYI: what's OOP's jargons andcomplexities?)

["Peter S. Housel" <housel@...>]

Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@sci.fi> writes:
> Instead of fighting the XML world, I think it'd be best for Lua to be 
> recognized as an "integrates well with XML" product.  I mean, reading in 
> XML _seamlessly_ into Lua tables, and output, too.
>
> I will be needing this shortly, since working with XML in C is .. tedious. 
> Anyone care to promote their favorite XML binding, I'll be listening. :)

The Monday project (http://monday.sourceforge.net/) contains a binding for
the libxml2 (a.k.a. gnome-xml) and libxslt libraries at:

   http://monday.sourceforge.net/tools/build/lua-libxml-project.html

The interface is based on the W3C's DOM (Document Object Model).  I only 
included bindings for functionality I am actually using in my application, 
though that does cover quite a bit.

There's no separate source distribution at the moment, and the build for the 
CVS version is centered around building the entire Monday project, but I 
could be persuaded to create a distribution with ordinary ("illiterate") 
source code if needed.

-Peter-