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Re: Looking for XML linearization information

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On 03/02/11 19:29, Generic Usenet Account wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are there are tools/W3C standards/design patterns etc. for linearizing
> XML content?  Basically I want to send information, which is natively
> in XML, to a resource constrained device that does not have XML
> awareness.  In other words, the resource constrained device does not
> do any DOM or SAX processing of XML.

There is a useful GPL'd tool called lxprintf, part of the LTXML2 package 
from Edinburgh. This reads an XML file, extracts specific nodes 
(elements, attributes) and then outputs values you specify in XPath 
notation, formatted with a printf-like specification.

To re-use Frank's example:

  <book>
    <references>This if ref #1</references>
    <references>This if ref #2</references>
    <references>This if ref #3</references>

    <title>Book Title One</title>
    <author>Joe Blog</author>
    <price>10.50</price>
</book>

$ lxprintf -e 'references' "%s\n" '.' test.xml
This if ref #1
This if ref #2
This if ref #3

Or perhaps

$ lxprintf -e book "%s/%s/$%s\n" author title price test.xml
Joe Blog/Book Title One/$10.50

///Peter (followups reset to c.t.x)
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Re: Looking for XML linearization information Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@m.silmaril.ie> - 2011-02-03 22:59 +0000

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