Re: xml pull parser

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

> > Alternatively, somebody, somewhere, somehow must have written this a 
> > dozen time already. Is there not a little code sample somewhere to 
> > show how to decode an XML string in Lua? Sigh...

decoding simple xml = easy
handling the full range of xml syntax (entities, i18n, etc) is a
non-trivial task.

but i have to agree - an xml parser is a great learning exercise.

i have written 2 xml parsers in lua, both sax-type (callback) -
the first one with a c lib, the second one pure lua : the devil is in
the detail :)

(and no, i couldn't make it handle all cases with gsub)

Adrian