On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Now that Perl6 is in the mix, though, I think that the best way to do
it is to make roles that model eg. Nodes, Plexes (Documents), Elements,
and the like, and then have operators on them do all the work (like my
idea of using a slash for a combined feed and call code operator). I
could be wrong, but it seems to me that we could get something that's
somewhat like XPath this way, without having to worry about defining an
XPath grammar or anything.
I'm talking to myself here :). The guys on IRC convinced me that the
way to go might be something like a grammar, but that does trees and tree
transformations instead of a text input stream. See the IRC log for
details :).
Talking to myself again. I'm not as convinced as I was. I'll write
up a long post about that if necessary, but want to get something else
figured out first. First, a paste from the IRC log:
<TimToady> note to treematching folks: it is envisaged that signatures in a
rule will match nodes in a tree
My question is, how is this expected to work? Can someone give an
example?
I'm assuming that this relates to Jon Lang's comment about using rules
to match non-strings.
I'm starting to see how *matching* would work now. But how would it
be if I wanted to search a tree for all nodes whose "readonly" attribute were
true, and return an array of those nodes? Hmm. Or something like the
following XPath...
/html/body//p/[EMAIL PROTECTED] = "#SampleName"]
(my XPath isn't that great, but I'm assuming this will find all a tags
in the html body that are the direct descendant of a paragraph, and have their
@name attribute set to "#SampleName"). My guess is something like this:
$htmlobject = HTML->new();
$htmlobject.children()
==> grep { /html/ } ==> map { .children() }
==> grep { /body/ } ==> map { .children() }
==> recursivegrep { /p/ } ==> map { .children() }
==> grep { /a/ and .name eq "#Samplename" } ==> $anchors
I'm guessing that might do it (although the tree role and
recursivegrep would also require some work). But the syntax is dreadful :).
You can see why I was talking about having a feed operator that did a grep
and got children as well as doing the feed. But no doubt I'm missing
something here. And I'm still thinking like a Perl5 programmer :).
:)
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