Is the XMLPulParser part of XMLSupport? Stef
>>>> I wonder what to do in this kind of situations. See >>>> >>>> 1) XML is one of the most important packages >>>> 2) There is no mailng-list for xml ? >>>> 3) Nobody replies and >>>> 4) You want latest updates from that package >>>> >>>> Any suggestion? >>> >>> Maybe you could try to reach someone from the administrators/developers >>> directly, there are quite a few on SS. >>> >> I'm one of those listed. But jaayer is the developer of the XML package. He >> picked up Michaels implementation and extended it. So there is only one guy >> that can give an elaborate answer. >> Hernan, I don't really understand your problem. It sounds like you need to >> mess with the method checkEOD in order to get your use case done. While the >> real problem is that SAX is about to read the whole file at once. And while >> this is inappropriate for a lot of cases StAX/pull parsers have been >> implemented. So the real issue is that there is no StAX/pull parser in >> smalltalk (or at least in pharo). >> >> Norbert >> >> > > Hi, > > Of course the ideal would be a using a full StAX implementation, or > even better a vtd-xml one, that would really be a cool use case for > attracting more developers into Smalltalk. As there is no > specification of SAX we are in the consensus line. So while SAX is > commonly and thought to be used as a read-all solution, there is some > workaround to stop the reading in Java [*]. So yes, I've used a > workaround for that case. Today I played with XMLPullParser (StAX) and > after a few changes I could parse and stop parsing when a specific > node is reached, example: > > | parser | > parser := XMLPullParser parse: '<?xml version="1.0"?> > <!DOCTYPE BlastOutput PUBLIC "-//NCBI//NCBI BlastOutput/EN" > "NCBI_BlastOutput.dtd"> > <BlastOutput> > <BlastOutput_program>blastn</BlastOutput_program> > <BlastOutput_version>BLASTN 2.2.26+</BlastOutput_version> > <BlastOutput_reference>Zheng Zhang, Scott Schwartz, Lukas Wagner, > and Webb Miller (2000), "A greedy algorithm for aligning DNA > sequences", J Comput Biol 2000; > 7(1-2):203-14.</BlastOutput_reference> > <BlastOutput_param> > <Parameters> > <Parameters_expect>10</Parameters_expect> > <Parameters_sc-match>1</Parameters_sc-match> > </Parameters> > </BlastOutput_param> > <BlastOutput_iterations>'. > [ parser isStartTag: 'BlastOutput_param' ] > whileFalse:[ > Transcript show: parser text; cr. > parser next ] > > I've sent the changes to Ken Treis so he can integrate them in > XMLPullParser package. > Cheers, > > Hernán > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipsaxstop/ > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3405702/using-sax-to-parse-common-xml-elements/3409270#3409270 > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1345293/how-to-stop-parsing-xml-document-with-sax-at-any-time >
