Re: any suggestions for reading in a XML file?

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:31 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:13:37AM -0800, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>> indium wrote
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > From the io-1.0.20 I understand that reading an xml file is not yet
>> > implemented.
>> > <snip>
>>
>> In the io package (Octave-Forge) there's an xmlread and an xmlwrite
>> function.
>> A bit of a problem is that they are too sparsely documented and -as the
>> creator disappeared from sight-hitherto unmaintained.
>>
>> If you feel sufficiently proficient in C++ you could have a look; and maybe
>> maintain those functions?
>>
>> Philip
>>
>
> Dear Philip, dear others,
>
> I have very little C and no C++ experience. That's why I hoped to do it in 
> octave itself.
>
> The suggestion of going via python/perl/java seems to me not the way to go, 
> since it implies a cross-dependence of any changes on the interpreter side 
> combined with any future Octave changes.
>
> My pragmatic approach at the moment is to grep/awk out the pieces that I want 
> and write out temporary files that are easily readable inside octave. Those 
> tools are less prone to fail due to version changes than interpreters like 
> perl/python/java.
>
> If I manage to solve my problem on the structure (as in my original post), 
> then I'll post it here.
>
> I'm sorry not to be able to contribute on the C++ level.
>
>
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Octave has a function python to take care of eventual interpreter
changes. Anyway, as you wish. In any case a dependency with python is
not a great deal.