Re: luaxml nested entities
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- Subject: Re: luaxml nested entities
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: 2013年10月15日 17:30:05 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Chris Datfung once stated:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:15 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > -- convert the table to an XML object
> > doc = xml.new(doc)
> > print(doc)
> >
> >
> Thanks, that did the trick. Normally when I try running print on a table I
> need to use ipairs() to print its contents. What is unique about the doc
> object (which is essentially a table in lua if I understand correctly) that
> allows you to use the print() function directly? Can I convert the doc
> object to a string and keep the formatting as well?
There are metatables associated with each table in the doc object that
provide a __tostring method. The print() function calls tostring() on any
paramters, so doing a
x = tostring(doc)
print(x)
is the same as
print(doc)
-spc