Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-23 Thread J.F. Rick
Nice! On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:53 PM Hernán Morales Durand < hernan.mora...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know for Pharo development, but I used XPath in Pharo for > getting a textual description of gene ontology terms, for example: > > #('GO:0005623' 'GO:0017071' 'GO:0030680') do: [ : goTerm | >

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-22 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
I don't know for Pharo development, but I used XPath in Pharo for getting a textual description of gene ontology terms, for example: #('GO:0005623' 'GO:0017071' 'GO:0030680') do: [ : goTerm | | xPath xmlDoc quickGO | quickGO := 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/QuickGO-Old/GTerm?id={1}&format=oboxml'

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-22 Thread Stephane Ducasse
I do not know. querying XML is already good for me. > PS After spending significant time with other languages at work, I really > have an appreciation of how wonderful Pharo is as a development environment. This is why we should have more companies paying smart people doing cool projects in Phar

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-21 Thread J.F. Rick
NICE! I was just using XPath for Selenium testing. It is really great for that application (commanding a browser like Firefox or Chrome to simulate user actions). What are the applications for XPath in Pharo? Unit testing of generating markup? Cheers, Jeff PS After spending significant time with

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-12 Thread Stephane Ducasse
h `git am` (I don't use github) that fixes >> some things and expands on others. >> >> And for the record, I'm not "Monty Kamath" and I don't know him. >> >> > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 1:03 PM >> > From: "Stephane Duc

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-12 Thread Stephane Ducasse
;Monty Kamath" and I don't know him. > >> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 at 1:03 PM >> From: "Stephane Ducasse" >> To: "Pharo Development List" >> Subject: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter... >> >> Hi >> >> I'm fully co

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-11 Thread Dimitris Chloupis
7 at 1:03 PM > > From: "Stephane Ducasse" > > To: "Pharo Development List" > > Subject: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter... > > > > Hi > > > > I'm fully convinced that we can have the best language if we do not > > let peopl

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-10-10 Thread monty
, September 24, 2017 at 1:03 PM > From: "Stephane Ducasse" > To: "Pharo Development List" > Subject: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter... > > Hi > > I'm fully convinced that we can have the best language if we do not > let people find their way super easily

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-09-26 Thread Stephane Ducasse
The problem is that people really like when others write documentation. You see I did not know at all what was XPath before starting to write this chapter. Stef On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 3:14 AM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote: > ghoetker wrote >> Thank you, Stef, for providing this (and all else you do).

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-09-25 Thread Sean P. DeNigris
ghoetker wrote > Thank you, Stef, for providing this (and all else you do). As a very new > user, I agree completely with your comment about the importance of > documentation. +100!!! - Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.html

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-09-25 Thread Nicolas Anquetil
To make all this documentation (booklets) more easily availbale, we could create a link to them in pharo itself for example as a special method, instance variable, or pragma (although I hate pragmas) in the Manifest? nicolas On 24/09/2017 16:27, Stéphane Ducasse wrote: > Hi > I'm fully c

Re: [Pharo-dev] XPath chapter...

2017-09-24 Thread ghoetker
Thank you, Stef, for providing this (and all else you do). As a very new user, I agree completely with your comment about the importance of documentation. I addition to the "Command/Package" based approach exemplified in this and the other books, I'd encourage the community to also consider a "