SV: [thelist] n00b XML Question
Marcus Andersson
marcan at home.se
Tue Dec 16 07:56:11 CST 2003
Okay. In that case: There are no nulls, just empty elements that look
either like <element></element> or <element/> (those two are equivalent
from XML perspective)
/Marcus
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> Marcus Andersson asked:
>
> >>What are you using to parse the files? Is it something SAX-based or
> >>DOM-based or something completely different?
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> <RonL. turns a bit red in the face />
>
> Uhhhh, actually, I'm doing a fairly simple analysis Marcus ... I'm
> just pulling the values of four elements out of each file (2 for
> reference and 2 to check the correlation between those values) ...
> I'm not attempting to parse or display the whole data set from each
> file. It's kind of a 'one off' quick and dirty analysis off some
> sample data.
>
> Sooooooo ... I wrote a very simple perl script that treats each file
> as text [Yep - pretty much completely ignoring the benefits provided
> by the 'structure' of the XML. However, (since I'm dealing with 10s
> of 1000s of files), you can pretty much guess that they are
> 'auto-generated' off a big iron box ... so it's not too terribly
> unreasonable to assume the format is predictable enough to treat
> as text.] and loops through all the files in the directory. Nothing
> fancy, extensible, modular, or reusable. Nope. It's a throwaway.
>
> It worked. I have my data. I was just wondering what nulls were
> supposed to look like. In my data they appeared to be missing
> elements,
> as opposed to physical elements with missing values.
>
>
> RonL.
> (Who _wanted_ to use the 'proper' tools (Win2k box) ... but all the
> tools I found tended to say things like 'download any 73.6 of the
> following 429 elements, fraginate them in your compiler, and use them
> to retile the floors in your kernel.' ... which is not anything *I'm*
> likely to be doing in the near future.)
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