in reply to Re^2: Simpler than XML::Simple
in thread Simpler than XML::Simple

Well, the real world ... my experience is that it's hard to get just well-formed and correctly encoded XML files from external parties.

Did you know that the "trang" tool is capable of creating a schema out of sample data? So I don't see the advantage with using XML::Smart.

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Re^4: Simpler than XML::Simple
by Jenda (Abbot) on Nov 24, 2010 at 19:23 UTC

    I don't see the advantage with using XML::Smart either :-)

    Jenda
    Enoch was right!
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      Ah, I meant XML::Rules :-)

      I just tried to convert the sample XML from XML::Rules' SYNOPSIS into a schema:

      trang test.xml test.rnc

      And the result: 

      default namespace = ""

start =
  element doc {
    element person {
      element fname { xsd:NMTOKEN },
      element lname { xsd:NMTOKEN },
      element email { xsd:NMTOKEN },
      element address {
        element street { xsd:NMTOKEN },
        element city { xsd:NMTOKEN },
        element country { xsd:NMTOKEN },
        element bogus { xsd:NMTOKEN }
      },
      element phones {
        element phone {
          attribute type { xsd:NCName },
          xsd:NMTOKEN
        }+
      }
    }+
  }
      Which looks quite reasonable. trang can also convert into .xsd files, which look uglier but are needed for XML::Compile operation.
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