feature request: lua xml parsing for custom readers

feature request: lua xml parsing for custom readers

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Hello list,

I've just read the announcement of version 3.1.1, that adds json 
conversion to custom readers.

It would be nice having XML parsing available to Lua readers, since many 
input formats are XML-based.

Currently you can install external modules, but there's a different way 
to do it in every operating system.

When you need your conversions to work across different operating 
systems, it's better having everything included in Pandoc: you install 
it and you're done, no need for anything else (even the PATH is set for 
you).


I.e. I'm using xml2lua, but I copied its files instead of installing the 
package with luarocks.

xml2lua files are copied in a directory where I put an 'init.lua' file 
like this:

local loadpaths = {}
if PANDOC_STATE.user_data_dir then
   table.insert(loadpaths, PANDOC_STATE.user_data_dir .. "/?.lua")
end
package.path = package.path .. ";" .. table.concat(loadpaths, ";")
XmlParser = require('XmlParser')
XmlDomHandler = require("xmlhandler.dom")

then I'm doing my conversions with --data-dir set to that directory.

That works the same in Linux and in Windows.


Massi

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