Re: Parsing common elements between xml documents
Re: Parsing common elements between xml documents
- Subject: Re: Parsing common elements between xml documents
- From: Malayil George <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:35 -0400
Thanks Jens. I switched to TinyXML to do my xml parsing and things have been
going well so far. Since, all the xml documents I will be parsing are pretty
small, I think it should be ok (shouldn't cause much of a memory overhead
with the DOM route).
George
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Apr 17, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Malayil George wrote:
>
> > But, I figure it would be easier if I could set
> > up a parser that would parse B into it's object and return it. So, while
> > parsing A, when I encounter element B, I would like to hand-off the
> entire B
> > element to my B parser and have it return object B. This way, while
> parsing
> > doc D, I could do the same thing (and not have to duplicate code for
> parsing
> > B) and my code is more readable. However, I am not able to figure out how
> to
>
> You can do this with a stream-based parser but it takes a bit of work. You
> keep a stack of which object you’re currently building, and when you finish
> an element you pop the corresponding object and hand it to the new top
> object, to store a reference to it.
>
> This sort of thing is easier with a DOM-based parser where you can inspect
> the entire tree of objects at once, but the Cocoa one (NSXMLDocument) isn’t
> available on iPhone for some reason.
>
> —Jens
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