Re: Aaaarrrggghhh XML!
Re: Aaaarrrggghhh XML!
- Subject: Re: Aaaarrrggghhh XML!
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:56:25 -0800
On Feb 23, 2005, at 5:46 AM, Martin Orpen wrote:
Is there an easy method to drill down through XML data and present the
tags
and contents in a readable form such as "tag name: value"?
I'm doing this with Photoshop's metadata at the moment. Looping
through a
list of tags and contents is easy enough:
set myList to {}
set end of myList to XML namespace uri of item 1 of c & return
repeat with n from 1 to count of items in c
set t to XML tag of item n of c
set d to XML contents of item n of c
set end of myList to t & ": " & d & return
end repeat
(Using LateNite's XML Tools osax)
Which is OK for simple stuff, but as soon as you hit XML contents with
nested XML data you get errors :-(
Unfortunately, I can't guarantee the XML content so will need to have a
solution that can work with some deeply nested data.
Before I start writing handlers for this I thought I'd ask if anybody
has
already got this sorted?
Martin,
I've done limited work with AppleScript and XMP; while XML Tools works,
it does get a bit heady with documents like XMP. What I found easiest
was to transform the XMP using a style sheet (XSLT), and then work with
that (either using XML Tools, or even by transformaing the XMP to a
simpler, non-XML format). I'm not sure if I've got a copy of any of
these style sheets here, but I'll dig em up if I can.
-R
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