Re: XML: Lots of Questions
- From: "R Dinger" <rrdinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:35:30 -0800
Hi Jim,
I too took the Hadley courses from Bob and I used to be the Tournament
Director of the USBCA.
Regarding Python or PERL, I think either will have the libraries you need
and you should use whatever you are comfortable with. I like Python because
I am a former C/C++ programmer and Python is similar yet a dynamic language.
As to the indentation that most non-Python programmers complain about, I
would indent my code anyway no matter what language I used (well maybe not
Cobol).
If I can be of any help, I will be happy to try.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 10:58 AM
Subject: RE: XML: Lots of Questions
Hi Richard,
As an asside, I just joined the US Braille Chess Association because I
graduated from the Hadley courses in chess, so what you say interests me.
For some reason, I'm intimidated learning Python. Maybe it's because I need
a lot of words and I'm think about learning programming stuff. I have
already learned a little bit of Perl, so I feel a little more confident with
that, but if you say it's easy to do the XML thing in Python, maybe I'l
start looking at that again.
Thanks.
Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of R Dinger
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:53 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XML: Lots of Questions
Hi Jim,
As usual, I will make a pitch for you to use Python for your xml processing,
but first let me tell you about a project I am currently involved in that
sounds similar to yours.
A friend has been doing some extensive analysis of chess openings and is
preparing a huge text document of his results. He wanted to display it as a
web page, but was uncertain how to do it.
I suggested writing a parser to read and convert his hierarchical document
into an xml format and then using one of the many Python library tools to
convert that to html.
Converting his nearly 2 meg text file into xml took a while, but writing the
tool to read that xml and produce the required html took only a couple of
hours. The library I used was the element tree library and I highly
recommend you look into it as it works well for that application. The
library will also give an error if your document is ill formed.
AS to what sort of data to avoid, I don't know as xml seems to work well for
anything that can be organized in combinations of sequences and hierarchies
of levels.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: XML: Lots of Questions
Hi,
This question relates to when to use XML. Thanks for the previous answers. I
just realized that I may not be able to do what I want to do because of some
environmental limitations. I think that I'm going to probably end up using
something like Perl to read my XML data and create my HTML pages. It's a
long story, so I probably won't be using those tutorials. Anyway, here's my
question.
What kinds of data structures should I avoid using XML for?
I'll start there, then get specific about what I want to do.
Thanks.
Jim
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