[ANN] LuaExpatUtils
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- Subject: [ANN] LuaExpatUtils
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:49:25 +0200
This came from the following discussion about XML pretty-printing, and
I used Mathew Wild's stanza.lua as a departure point (sometimes OSS is
very much like permitted stealing.)
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-08/msg00715.html
doc.lua provides a flexible XML pretty-printer for LOM documents:
local doc = require 'lxp.doc'
local lom = require 'lxp.lom'
local d = lom.parse '<abc a1="A1" a2="A2"><ef>hello</ef></abc>'
print(doc.tostring(d,'',' '))
which gives the following output, with an initial indent of '' and a
per-element indent of ' '.
<abc a1='A1' a2='A2'>
<ef>hello</ef>
</abc>
Setting the attribute indent with `doc.tostring(d,'',' ',' ')` we
get exactly what Alexander was originally looking for:
<abc
a1='A1'
a2='A2'>
<ef>hello</ef>
</abc>
Apart from the stanza-style LOM building, it provides an
Orbit-htmlify-like LOM builder (except that the element constructors
are explicitly declared and no function environment magic takes
place.)
local children,child,toy,name,age = doc.tags 'children,child,toy,name,age'
d2 = children {
child {name 'alice', age '5', toy {type='fluffy'}},
child {name 'bob', age '6', toy {type='squeaky'}}
}
There is also LOM template expansion and LOM structural pattern
matching, which is Tamale-like but uses partial matching and allows
for explicit repeating.
The README.md goes in more detail. This is very much a preliminary API
'executable proposal' sketch, and I welcome any suggestions on more
logical structuring.
You can get it from the Github page (the download button is pretty
obvious these days ;)). The tests assume that doc.lua is sitting in
the lxp namespace, but doc.lua itself does not care where it goes.
http://http://github.com/stevedonovan/LuaExpatUtils
steve d.