Re: [Caml-list] xpath or alternatives

["Mikkel Fahnøe Jørgensen" <mikkel@dvide.com>]

In line with what Yaron suggests, you can use a combinator parser.

I do this to parse json, and this parser could be adapted to xml by
focusing on basic syntax and ignoring the details, or you could
prefilter xml and use the json parser directly.

See the Fleece parser embedded here:

There is also the object abstraction that dives into an object
hierarchy after parsing, see the Objects module. The combination of
these two makes it quite easy to work on structured data, but 3 lines
only come after some xml adaptation work - but you can see many
one-liner json access in the last part of the file.

http://git.dvide.com/pub/symbiosis/tree/myocamlbuild_config.ml

Otherwise there is xmlm which is self-contained in single xml file,
and as I recall, has some sort of zipper navigator. (I initially
intended to use it before deciding on the json format):

http://erratique.ch/software/xmlm