Re: XML Support for Penlight?

[Henk Boom <henk@...>]

On 28 March 2011 15:18, Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 28, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Lucas Zawacki wrote:
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>>  In
>> the end of the day it's more about the mindset of the coder, in Lua
>> people tend to like it very simple.
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> Talking of which, I like David Sklar's BadgerFish convention for translating an XML document into a Lua table:
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> http://ajaxian.com/archives/badgerfish-translating-xml-to-json
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> Here is a simplistic implementation:
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> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/XML.lua
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> Usage example:
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> local XML = require( 'XML' )
> local anXML = XML( aContent ) -- e.g. http://www.lua.org/news.rss
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> print( anXML.rss.channel.description[ '$' ] )

Is there a way to get at the child elements in their original order,
e.g. for XHTML-type stuff?

    henk