On Wednesday 07 March 2007, Greg McCreath wrote: > I do like the element.sub-element.sub-element.@attribue-name type syntax of > E4X and it's not too far away from lua syntax is it. Javascript also uses > associative arrays a lot. that seems nice, until you get some XMLs with lots of text content intermixed with tags (think a HTML paragraph with <span>s in it), or an element with several subelements with the same tagname (a table row with several fields, or a database result, etc). in the end, with so different syntaxes as XML and Lua, it seems you can get three types of mappings: 1) limited. only works with some contents 2) ugly. (DOM-like) 3) flexible... a BIG project. i've tried a couple of times, nothing usable by a loong shot. if you want some help with (3); i don't have any ideas, but could concote nasty examples to see how best to express them :-) -- Javier
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