On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 09:15:54 UTC, Derix wrote:
So, I set sails to transform a bunch of HTML files with D.
This, of course, will happen with the std.xml library.
There is this nice example :
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_xml.html#.DocumentParser
that I put to some use already, however some of the basics seem
to escape me, specially in lines like
xml.onEndTag["author"] = (in Element e) { book.author
= e.text(); };
OK, we're doing some event-base parsing, reacting with a lambda
function on encountering so-and-do tag, à la SAX. (are we ?)
What I don't quite grab is the construct (in Element e) ,
especially the *in* part.
Is it *in* as in http://dlang.org/expression.html#InExpression
? In which case I fail to see what associative array we're
considering.
It's probably more a way to further qualify the argument e were
passing to the λ-function : could someone elaborate on that ?
Of course, it is entirely possible that I completely miss the
point and that I'm overlooking some fundamentals, if so have
mercy and help me find my way back to teh righteous path ;-)
Thxxx
The documentation says:
"Warning: This module is considered out-dated and not up to
Phobos' current standards. It will remain until we have a
suitable replacement, but be aware that it will not remain long
term."
My advice is not to use it. I used it a while back, but it slowed
down my system (why I still don't know), and it is permanently
soon-to-be deprecated.
If you wanna use D for XML parsing, see if you can find a solid
3rd party library in D (have a look at Adam's github page:
https://github.com/adamdruppe/, he has some DOM and HTML stuff up
there).
There is a new xml module in the review queue, but nobody seems
to care. I _think_ the reason why nobody really cares is that
most people in the D community don't like XML.
