[Expat-discuss] help for a program

[William Park]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:51:25PM +0500, Muhammad Rizwan Khan wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I am new to this library and XML. I want to write a program which 'll be
> given a xml packet (file) it 'll parse the packet and 'll return the
> values.
> Input to the program is as follows:
> <test>  
>       <one>   
>              <inner>stuff</inner>                	   
> 	<inner>stuff1</inner>
>	.		.		.        </one>
> </test>
> output should be as:
> test
> one
> inner stuff
> inner stuff1
> ....
> 
> Can you please guide me how i can do that, speically: 
> inner stuff inner stuff1 ... stuff

If you want to do this in C, then you actually have to read the doc and
examples.  (www.libexpat.org).

If you want to do this in shell, then use my patch to Bash
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/).  Play around with

    start () {		# Usage: start tag att=value ...
	echo
	echo -n "$1"
    }
    data () {		# Usage: data data
	echo -n " $*"
    }
    xml -s start -d data '<test>...</test>'

If you're interested in data for <inner> tags only, then
    
    data () {
	case ${XML_ELEMENT_STACK[1]} in
	    inner) echo -n " $*" ;;
	esac
    }
    
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>, Toronto, Canada
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