TCL Parsing - Has It Improved?

[tonyrayo]

I have brought this topic up in the past, but was told there wasn't proper support for it to work. I was wondering if anyone has seen/used a script that would be able to parse/display xml and/or rdf and/or rss files. There must be a simple set of rules that could be set, or even if you needed to customize a file for a specific website, I am looking for detailed information on how this could be done. Thank you - Tony.

[user]

Parsing rss can be done pretty easily because of the predefined structure.
Here's a quick example to get you started:

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# fetch the channel element...
if {[regexp -nocase {<channel>.+?</channel>} $xml xml]} {
  # loop through the items:
  foreach item [regexp -all -inline -nocase {<item>.+?</item>} $xml] {
    # extract what ever you need from each item in here :)
  }
} else {
  # no/empty channel element - what to do?
}

[ppslim]

Generic XML can be parsed with SXML parser (available on THIS page).

There are also a lot of other libraries that can help, including a Tcl wrapper for Expat.

[tonyrayo]

Hmm, I wish I had time to learn tcl, I was hoping there was already an eggdrop coded template for this, but thank you for the help regardless fokes, I will try and work with it .