Hi Frank, On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 10:58 -0500, Frank W. Zammetti wrote: > Has any thought been given to, or has any work been done already, to > creating a Javascript-based client-side version of Digester? I'm > starting on a new project soon where I'll potentially have to be doing a > fair amount of client-side XML parsing, and it occurs to me that using > Digester would make my life A LOT easier. > > Even if only a subset of functionality was available, I think it would > be a nice thing to have. If this idea HASN'T been explored yet, would > there be any interest in it besides me? I could possibly roll it into > my project as a to-do and get it done.
You may find difficulties trying to duplicate the general concept of Digester in javascript. I tried to do it in Ruby, and found that it doesn't fit terribly well with dynamically-typed languages. Quite a lot of Digester depends upon the ability to perform reflection upon the object on the top of the stack to determine what its properties are, and what types they have. This information just isn't available in Ruby, nor in Javascript. Some kind of "type declaration" framework (eg something like java's BeanInfo descriptors) is really needed, I think, to provide the info that Java classes give by default. I got stuck on this with the Ruby port, and then got distracted by other stuff. I don't mean to discourage you from attempting this, just give warning that a 1:1 translation of Digester to a dynamically-typed language may not be possible. And of course if Digester is being reimplemented then that's a good chance to clean things up quite a bit. Digester2 may be a good starting point, or the ruby stuff at rubyforge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmldigester/ Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
