Not currently, alas, having hacked my primary motivating example
(publishing my wife's most recent novel for kindle) by hand. I'd like to
return to it, but probably not soon. First I want to get 0.4.0 of edn-java
released.
Ben
On Thursday, January 17, 2013, lewen7er9 wrote:
> 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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