Re: Pure Lua XML parsing and generating

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem to be having trouble finding a pure Lua library that can parse
> XML into a table and back again.

The pl.xml module does this:
https://github.com/stevedonovan/Penlight/blob/master/lua/pl/xml.lua

(it's _almost_ self-sufficient, and currently only depends on pl.utils)

lua docs are here
http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight/api/modules/pl.xml.html
and discussion is here:
http://stevedonovan.github.com/Penlight/api/topics/06-data.md.html#XML

Uses Roberto's pure-Lua parser when it can't find luaexpat.  It uses a
modified version of the stringifier from Mathew Wild's Prosody.

Plus, it provides an implementation of the 'htmlify' pattern as used
in Orbit for generating XML.

steve d.