On Feb 8, 2008 6:31 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a simple way to represent a search query as XML. > > The query language applies to email messages, and is a superset of the > IMAP SEARCH syntax. It can express things like "flag blah is set, and > the subject contains foo, and the text contains bar or baz": a handful > of primitives plus the usual logical combinators. > > I want to take that query (stored internally as an sexpr-style string) > and render it as XML. I don't really care what the output looks like, I > only need to be able to manipulate its structure with some JavaScript, > and then send it back to the server. > > Of course, I could just sprinkle some < and > around and come up with > something; but I'm wondering if there's something around that is meant > to be used for such purposes already. It's hard to ask Google for such > a thing (because of e.g. XQuery and XPath) and so far I have failed to > explain what I want to people who know more about XML than I do. > > Why XML? Because it has to be something. I don't care, I just want to > be able to simply edit it with JavaScript. > > Any thoughts? (Tim?)
Have you tried JSON ? You might want to check it out if you are looking to manipulate data using JS. Less fat more data and more human readable methinks. http://www.json.org/ -- Vinayak
