Just wondering if this is still being actively worked. On Monday, July 16, 2012 3:53:21 PM UTC-4, bsmith.occs wrote: > > TL;DR: I'm looking for a Clojure library that round trips XML+namespaces > through Clojure data structures and back again. > > > I'm hacking on a chewing-gum-and-bailing-wire solution publish my wife's > novels as EPUB. I've got most of a prototype of the core functionality > working, but an stubbing my toe an a lack of what would consider > sufficient XML support in the Clojure universe. > > I'm consuming Apple Pages (heavily namespaced XML) and will need to > produce XML Plist, XHTML, OPF and NCX, all of which are namespaced as > well. > > My first prototype parser for Pages documents used clojure.xml and > works, provided Apple never changes the prefixes they use for the > various namespaces the crop up in a Pages document. This is because > clojure.xml is absolutely namespace ignorant. Also, there doesn't seem > to be a way to write clojure.xml out as literal XML. > > I'm in the process of switching to clojure.data.xml, but have discovered > that it parses namespace aware by default, but only uses this in order > to have a simple way to ignore namespace information without getting > confused by spurious namespace prefixes. > > That would be fine for parsing the Pages document, but it's a > non-starter for producing my output files since these require the use of > namespaces. > > I've looked at hiccup, which would solve my HTML production problem, > save for the fact that it produces XHTML 1.0 while my current > half-manual publishing process uses XHTML 1.1. I expect either version > would work, but that still leaves me without a solution for Plist, OPF > and NCX. > > > What are my best options? Am I overlooking a Clojure library that > already does what I need? I could try to teach data.xml to support XML > namespaces, but the current half-hearted hack which conflates Clojure > namespaces with XML namespaces would have to go, I fear. I could instead > put my time into extending hiccup to support XML more generally, or at > least provide explicit support for NCX, OPF and PList. Should I just > write my own library? Maybe I could build atop XOM so as not to reinvent > the heavy lifting. > > // Ben >
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