in reply to XPath to XML

Hi tosaiju

Could you please give us an example how this should ideally work?

Like showing desired input & output?

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IIRC does XPath allows various wildcards on various axis to seek flexibly within the doc tree.

Thats pretty complex or just impossible to use such incomplete information as a document definition.

But if you don't allow wildcards your pretty close at defining how to put data into nested structures (AoH...). (something like Data::Diver comes to mind or just plain autovivification)

So using a module which uses something like XPath to set Perl datastructures and exporting them to XML (e.g. see cpan for dump xml) could be a way to address this task.

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^2: XPath to XML
by tosaiju (Acolyte) on May 20, 2013 at 07:25 UTC
    Thanks LanX for the update.

    lets take I have an input like below and related data,

    /bookstore/book@category='COOKING'
    /bookstore/book/title
    /bookstore/book/title@lang='en'
    /bookstore/book/author
    /bookstore/book/year
    /bookstore/book/price
    Any chance of getting an XML file like below,

    <book category="COOKING">
    <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
    <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
    <year>2005</year>
    <price>30.00</price>
    </book>

    I undersatnd Xpath generally works the otherway around and traversing XML file, but wondering any modules - which helps in constructing XML file from given XPath.

    Thanks,

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Re^2: XPath to XML
by tosaiju (Acolyte) on May 20, 2013 at 07:51 UTC
    something like as mentioned in below site
    http://translet.sourceforge.net/
    but this is in Java and the usage looks simple
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      Well, that usage is much simpler than what you posted but hey, if http://translet.sourceforge.net/ works use it

      I vaguely recall seeing that before, writing (tree) like that before , and my code practically already does that :P

      update: [cpan://xpath xml ] [cpan://xpath parser ] -> XML::XPathToXML - Generates XML document from XPath expressions

      See, I knew xsh had it :)

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[d/l]
        That looks good. Let me play with this now.
        Thanks a lot.
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