On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Pēteris Paikens <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm quite stuck on getting HXT working to do my xml parsing, can you > help me to get started? > Even in > http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HXT#Getting_started:_Hello_world_examples > the basic filter example that's given there in section 6: > > import Text.XML.HXT.Core > import Text.XML.HXT.DOM.XmlTreeFilter > selectAllText :: ArrowXml a => a XmlTree XmlTree > selectAllText = deep isXText > > fails with the following error message. What could I be doing wrong? > > Couldn't match expected type `Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree XNode' > with actual type `hxt-8.5.4:Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree > hxt-8.5.4:Text.XML.HXT.DOM.TypeDefs.XNode' > Expected type: a (Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree XNode) XmlTree > Actual type: Text.XML.HXT.DOM.XmlTreeTypes.XmlFilter > In the first argument of `deep', namely `isXText' > In the expression: deep isXText > > > On the other hand, perhaps you can suggest something other than HXT - > my needs would be taking "heavy" XML's (a lot of little-neccessary > structure, but correctly validated), extracting text tokens from it > and outputting them with some light tagsoup annotation. > > Regards, > Peteris > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
You could try xml-conduit[1] instead. I use it extensively at work. There's an appendix in the Yesod book[2] covering basic usage. Michael [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-conduit [2] http://www.yesodweb.com/book/xml-enumerator _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
