RE: abandoned lua xpath?

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

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> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of basiliscos@openmailbox.org
> Sent: woensdag 11 maart 2015 13:44
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: abandoned lua xpath?
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I'm new to lua and try to use it for my play-ground examples.
> 
> I have found, that it would be useful to use xpath-expressions to
> filter complex xml-documents. The example I found can be seen at
> [1].
> 
> Well, but I cannot find the corresponding lua-rocks distribution
> for it. I was able to found the original site for the project,
> but it seems outdated (wrong download link); the correct
> download link I found at archives link at the luaforge.net[3]
> 
> I think use LuaRocks is good way instead of just copy sources
> directly into project.
> 
> Is the project abandoned? 

Very much looks like it...

> May be there is some more modern alternative? If it is abandoned and there is no alternative am I
> allowed to import it on github (I would like to do fork), 

Licensed as MIT, so; yes, you are allowed to fork it

> create rock-specs and make/upload as lua-rocks distribution?

The community would be served by that initiative, so please do!

Thijs


> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] http://code.mios.com/trac/mios_genericutils/wiki/XPath
> [2] http://luaxpath.luaforge.net/
> [3] http://luaforge.net/projects/luaxpath/
> 
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