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julienb

recursive parsing of XML
Dec 16^th, 2007, 8:50pm

Hi all !

I'd like to use your so GREAT experiencies/knowledge.

I'm working on a visualization of a social network that provides xml file for each user.
in each xml file, there are names which refer to other xml user file.

I'd like to read the first xml file for the "seed" user (i.e the point from which the network construction begins) and to recursively read all the xml file quoted in the seed xml user file and etc etc (with a constant and not infinite depth of course..)

with proXML I had some problems (cause I'm not an expert)
How can I do to open an xml file, and another, etc etc etc ?
each time I do that, XMLEvent is called and it gives me problems!

I'd like to use a function instead of XMLEvent function.

any ideas ? any experiencies ?

indeed, without using XMLEvent function, I can't get the element structure and thus I can't begin my construction...

talk soon

Scott Murray Full Member Offline Posts: 117 San Francisco	Re: recursive parsing of XML Reply #1 - Feb 12^th, 2009, 6:16pm Julien, did you ever get an answer to this? I am having the same issue. It seems that, no matter what XMLElement you want to work with, the same xmlEvent() method is called, so I'm not sure how to indicate when I'm pulling XML file A, direct the output to XMLElement object B, and so on.

julienb YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 25	Re: recursive parsing of XML Reply #2 - Feb 12^th, 2009, 6:19pm I aborted this project... because of time to spend for this.. I know that today, Processing core includes xml features. it may probably be easier.. I cannot tell more, sorry

ps Junior Member Offline Posts: 69 gaia / coimbra (.pt)	Re: recursive parsing of XML Reply #3 - Feb 16^th, 2009, 12:47pm hmm.. i used multiple xml elements before without any problems, wasnt recursive multifile though, so maybe there is indeed some sort of limitation with that, but do you have some example code to look at? also, tried submitting it as a bug in http://dev.processing.org/bugs/ ?
	ps from the planet of leather moomins - enough is enough

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