Re: [boost] RFC: Boost.XML API prototype in the sandbox

From: gchen (chengang31_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-12 05:40:36

David Abrahams wrote:
 >
 >   I find XML horrible to read,

Yes. And that is the good reason we need a library to read it.

 > however I find most of the procedural code I've seen for manipulating
 > it even more horrible.

Agree.

 >
 > I would like to see a more declarative syntax for much of this stuff.
 >

[...]

 > could be something like:
 >
 >     root.push_front(
 >         tag("articleinfo")[
 >              title ? (comment("This title was moved"), title) : NULL
 >            , tag("author")[
 >                  tag("firstname")["Joe"],
 >                  tag("surname")["Random"]
 >              ]
 >         ]
 >     )
 >

This looks very interesting. I am just wondering if this declarative
syntax could also apply to xml reader.

 From my experience, creating xml does't seem a big problem, but writing
xml-reader (created by other softwares, like rss feed, xhtml, log in xml
format) is a time-consuming task.