Re: XML pretty printer?

[Renaud AUBIN <aubin@nibua-r.org>]

Ooops, it's not a detail but I need to precise that if the xml input is
not valid (from my custom pret-xml pov), nothing will be processed!

Renaud

Le 20/11/2010 20:40, Renaud AUBIN a écrit :
> Hi ConTeXters,
>
> I have a first "operational" version of my lpeg-based xml pretty
> printer: http://www.nibua-r.org/gitsnap/pret-xml/
> "operational" means:
>
> 1 − That pretty printer will type only partially valid xml file
>     <test></other> will be considered valid
>     <test att="test"some invalid text /> is not considered valid
>     …
>
> 2 − A real namespace management is missing, thus foons declarations will
> be prettyfied as standard attribute and foo: will be processed just as
> plain tag name.
>
> 3 − Endlines within CharData are not yet supported.
>
> As I'm a lua and lpeg beginner, the code provided is not subtle nor
> optimized…
>
> That pretty printer is slightly different of standard pretty printer
> since a lpeg grammar is applied on a full buffer, i.e. not on a
> line-pre-line based approach. The main drawback, not verified, is that
> if you have a huge xml file to process, it will just explode the stack…
> An analogy: in memory tree xml vs. parser…
>
> It's far from perfect but you are welcome to use, review and give feedbacks…
>
> (… and OK, it's not packaged as a third party module yet…)
>
> Renaud
>   
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