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hhzl edited this page May 16, 2025 · 34 revisions

Gathering of existing material ...

Origin

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2256 4744YAXO – Duane Maxwell, Andres Valloud, Michael Rueger – 25 January 2002 YAX is yet another XML parser. This version is an effort to further integrate the original yax version with the Exobox implementation. The original yax version already was based on some ideas in the Comanche tokenizer and the Exobox parser. The YAX homepage is at http://www.squeaklet.com/Yax/index.html. This change set includes a XMLParser with SAX and DOM support and a XMLWriter.

Writing a XML file

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6338

Reading a XML file

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6433

Erudite

Lift out examples from Erudite https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Erudite

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Erudite/refs/heads/master/Examples/xmlbook3.xml Add the statement which reads this here

FAO country names example

https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6342

(XMLDOMParser parseFileNamed: 'fao_country_names.xml')
  firstNode
  allElementsSelect: [ : each |
    each localName = 'geographical_region' ].

The file fao_country_names.xml seems to be no longer available in XML, see https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/country-names

Find another candidate.

Pharo

https://github.com/pharo-contributions/XML-XMLParser

|xmlString|
xmlString := '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<countries>
  <country code="af" handle="afghanistan" continent="asia" iso="4">Afghanistan</country>
  <country code="al" handle="albania" continent="europe" iso="8">Albania</country>
  <country code="dz" handle="algeria" continent="africa" iso="12">Algeria</country>
</countries>'.

(XMLDOMParser parse: xmlString) document root nodes inspect

Does not work, needs to be adapted.

13 year old Pharo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q78hzawfGU

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