Learning to XML with D
Arjan via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 7 04:36:06 PST 2015
On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 09:15:54 UTC, Derix wrote:
> So, I set sails to transform a bunch of HTML files with D.
> This, of course, will happen with the std.xml library.
>
> There is this nice example :
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_xml.html#.DocumentParser
> that I put to some use already, however some of the basics seem
> to escape me, specially in lines like
>
> xml.onEndTag["author"] = (in Element e) { book.author
> = e.text(); };
>
> OK, we're doing some event-base parsing, reacting with a lambda
> function on encountering so-and-do tag, à la SAX. (are we ?)
>
> What I don't quite grab is the construct (in Element e) ,
> especially the *in* part.
>
> Is it *in* as in http://dlang.org/expression.html#InExpression
> ? In which case I fail to see what associative array we're
> considering.
>
> It's probably more a way to further qualify the argument e were
> passing to the λ-function : could someone elaborate on that ?
>
> Of course, it is entirely possible that I completely miss the
> point and that I'm overlooking some fundamentals, if so have
> mercy and help me find my way back to teh righteous path ;-)
>
>
> Thxxx
Maybe, when you're on windows, you could use msxml6 through COM.
You have DOM, SAX, Xpath 1.0 and XSLT at your disposal.
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