Help with xml & lua

[Olivier Binda <olivier.binda@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello

I have been trying for the past 3 days to process files with xml on the 
lua side (with Context beta 0.70), but I'm at then end of my wits and 
really need help.

On the lua side, I would really like to be able to :

  1) transform a tree : replace nodes with other nodes

  2) transform a tree : walk it and modify node attributes

  3) walk a modified tree and flush it with setups


Could someone give me hints or better yet a lua snipet that :
1) load a tree in lua
2) modify it
3) walk it
4) it can be done again


I have had some success with 1, but lost 2 days trying to make 2 & 3 
work with setups


A) I managed to replace a node of an xml document with a subtree of 
another xml document by doing :

-- load the main tree
   local mainTree = lxml.load("mainTree", "mainFile.xml)

   local replacementNode = xml.first(lxml.load("replacement", 
"replacementFile.xml), somePattern)

-- replace nodes
   for node in xml.collected(tree, pattern) do
         node.tg ="toBeReplaced"
         xml.replace(tree, "toBeReplaced", replacementNode)
   end

But then I failed to walk the modified tree with setups : my setups for 
"mainTree" work, but not for the inserted subtrees

B) So, to process my tree further, I need to first serialize it

-- save the modified tree

  xml.save(mainTree, "saved.xml")

And then, I can reload the modified tree and work further with it (but 
it sucks to have to save to reload).

C) "xml.replace" works in a weird way : it erases node (toBereplaced) 
and inserts the children of replacementNode as children of the parent of 
the node to be replaced...


D) I did not manage to walk a tree loaded with xml.load in lua. I know 
that I have to register setups, I tried all sort of things, looked at 
the Tex/Lua context source code but could not make it work. Also the xml 
documentation for context on the net is really old, sparse and obsolete.

On the tex side, it works : \xmlprocessfile{mySetups}{saved.xml}{} works 
like a charm
But the TeX commands don't allow you to grab a modified xml tree, once 
you have walked it

E) I tried

lxml.load(id, filename)
context("\\xmlregistereddocumentsetups{" .. id .. "}{}")




Best regards,
OlivierBinda



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