Re: [Caml-list] xpath or alternatives

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 04:05:03AM -0700, Dario Teixeira wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Ocamlduce has been mentioned before in this thread, but I didn't catch
> the reason why it has been discarded as a solution.  Is it because you
> don't want to carry the extra (large) dependency, or is there some other
> reason?

Actually the reason is that I thought it wasn't available for 3.11.1,
but I just checked the website and it is, and ocamlduce does seem to
be the obvious solution for this problem.  (However I'll need to try
and see if I can come up with the equivalent code).

> And on the subject of simple XML parsers for Ocaml, there's also the
> aptly named Simplexmlparser from the Ocsigen project [1].  It's about
> as spartan as one can conceive, yet sufficient for a large subset of
> XML extraction tasks.
> 
> [1] http://ocsigen.org/docu/1.2.0/Simplexmlparser.html

Thanks - but if I understand that page correctly, then isn't it
just parsing XML into a tree?

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat