Hello I read the post by Stephane Ducasse about writing XML (see below) with a bibliography example. Recently I (re)-discovered the port to Squeak/Pharo of the Writing API for XML (WAX) (http://java.ociweb.com/mark/programming/WAX.html) and could put it to good use for writing an XML file a bit more complex than the bibliography example.
From the web site WAX has the following characteristics:
* focuses on writing XML, not reading it * requires less code than other approaches * uses less memory than other approaches (because it outputs XML as each method is called rather than storing it in a DOM-like structure and outputting it later) * writes all XML node types * always outputs well-formed XML or throws an exception unless running in "trust me" mode * knows how to associate DTDs, XML Schemas and XSLT stylesheets with the XML it outputs * is well-suited for writing XML request and response messages for REST-based and SOAP-based services However I do not know how far these points apply to the Squeak/Pharo port. http://www.squeaksource.com/WAX It needs the VB Regex package (http://www.squeaksource.com/Regex) As an exercise I did the code to produce the example Stephane gave. It worked fine; see below. Regards Hannes ========================================================== WAX new stream: (FileStream newFileNamed: 'myBibliography.xml'); writeXMLDeclaration: #1.0; start: 'BDBase'; attr: 'date' value: '25 May 2010'; attr: 'note' value: 'nil'; start: 'bd'; attr: 'authors' value: 'Larcenet'; attr: 'editor' value: 'Dargaud'; attr: 'entryCreationDate' value: '25 March 2006'; attr: 'entryNumber' value: '1'; attr: 'number' value: '1'; attr: 'original' value: 'true'; attr: 'serie' value: 'Nic oumouk'; attr: 'serieComplete' value: 'false'; attr: 'title' value: 'Total souk pour nic oumouk'; attr: 'year' value: '2005'; end; start: 'bd'; attr: 'authors' value: 'Greg'; attr: 'editor' value: 'Dargaud'; attr: 'entryCreationDate' value: '5 May 2006'; attr: 'entryNumber' value: '2'; attr: 'notes' value: 'sur le 4eme de couv aventure a manhattan'; attr: 'number' value: '9'; attr: 'original' value: 'true'; attr: 'serie' value: 'Achille Talon'; attr: 'title' value: 'Les petits desseins d''Achille Talon'; attr: 'year' value: '1974'; end; start: 'bd'; attr: 'authors' value: 'Greg'; attr: 'editor' value: 'Dargaud'; attr: 'entryCreationDate' value: '5 May 2006'; attr: 'entryNumber' value: '3'; attr: 'notes' value: 'sur la couverture une histoire du journal tintin'; attr: 'number' value: '13'; attr: 'original' value: 'true'; attr: 'serie' value: 'Achille Talon'; attr: 'title' value: 'Pas de pitié pour Achille Talon'; attr: 'year' value: '1976'; end; end; close. ========================================================== Output <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <BDBase date="25 May 2010" note="nil"> <bd authors="Larcenet" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="25 March 2006" entryNumber="1" number="1" original="true" serie="Nic oumouk" serieComplete="false" title="Total souk pour nic oumouk" year="2005"/> <bd authors="Greg" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="2" notes="sur le 4eme de couv aventure a manhattan" number="9" original="true" serie="Achille Talon" title="Les petits desseins d'Achille Talon" year="1974"/> <bd authors="Greg" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="3" notes="sur la couverture une histoire du journal tintin" number="13" original="true" serie="Achille Talon" title="Pas de pitié pour Achille Talon" year="1976"/> </BDBase> ========================================================== On 10/31/10, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:
How can I control that each of the node of my document get printed a cr at its end?
In the past I got that
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <BDBase date="25 May 2010" entriesNumber="2440" note="nil"> <bd authors="Larcenet" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="25 March 2006" entryNumber="1" number="1" original="true" serie="Nic oumouk" serieComplete="false" title="Total souk pour nic oumouk" year="2005"/> <bd authors="Greg" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="2" notes="sur le 4eme de couv aventure a manhattan" number="9" original="true" serie="Achille Talon" title="Les petits desseins d'Achille Talon" year="1974"/> <bd authors="Greg" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="3" notes="sur la couverture une histoire du journal tintin" number="13" original="true" serie="Achille Talon" title="Pas de pitié pour Achille Talon" year="1976"/> <bd aut
Now I get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Base date="31 October 2010" entriesNumber="2448" note="nil"><bd serieComplete="false" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="25 March 2006" entryNumber="1" authors="Larcenet" title="Total souk pour nic oumouk" serie="Nic oumouk" original="true" number="1" year="2005" /><bd serieComplete="false" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="2" authors="Greg" title="Les petits desseins d'Achille Talon" serie="Achille Talon" original="true" notes="sur le 4eme de couv aventure a manhattan" number="9" year="1974" /><bd serieComplete="false" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="3" authors="Greg" title="Pas de pitié pour Achille Talon" serie="Achille Talon" original="true" notes="sur la couverture une histoire du journal tintin" number="13" year="1976" /><bd serieComplete="false" editor="Dargaud" entryCreationDate="5 May 2006" entryNumber="4" authors="Greg" title
Thanks
Stef