From: Len Blanks <ltb@haruspex.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Troubles in Regular Expression Paradise
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 17:07:11 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fvkc6mls.fsf@haruspex.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oaz0ilei.fsf@geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be> (Nicolas Richard's message of "Wed, 14 May 2014 14:40:05 +0200")
Nicolas Richard <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:
> Len Blanks <ltb@haruspex.net> writes:
>> I'm trying to parse an xml file containing information for a song "currently playing"
>> on my iTunes - specifically the artist, name of the tune and the CD in appears on.
>
>> and here is a function I had hoped would strip the relevant fields and return a string in
>> the form: "_artist_'s _title_ from the CD _album_" to be inserted in a X-NOW-PLAYING:
>> header in emails and usenet posts:
>
> The regexp question was answered, so I allow myself to mention
> libxml-parse-xml-region instead of regexps for parsing xml.
>
> First eval:
> (setq yftest (libxml-parse-html-region (point-min) (point-max)))
> in a buffer which holds your file.
>
> Then you can get away with:
> (caddr (assoc 'title (caddr yftest)))
> (caddr (assoc 'artist (caddr yftest)))
> (caddr (assoc 'album (caddr yftest)))
> to get the title, artist and album respectively.
>
> As a side note, I wrote some elisp for using the kind of data that
> libxml-parse-html-region spits out, so here's my way of solving your
> problem with my code :
>
> (require 'tree-html)
> ;; https://github.com/YoungFrog/tree-html/blob/master/tree-html.el
>
> (defun yf/get-value-for-sole-subtree-with-given-tag (tree tag)
> "Assume there's exactly one XML element with given TAG in TREE, and return its
> associated value."
> (yf/tree-html-get-value
> (yf/tree-html-get-sole-element
> (yf/tree-html-select
> tree
> (lambda (tree)
> (eq tag (yf/tree-html-get-tag tree)))))))
>
> (format "%s's %s from the CD %s"
> (yf/get-value-for-sole-subtree-with-given-tag yftest 'artist)
> (yf/get-value-for-sole-subtree-with-given-tag yftest 'title)
> (yf/get-value-for-sole-subtree-with-given-tag yftest 'album))
>
> (Yes, I'm *that* bad at naming things.)
I need to do a better job researching what is available, rather than
reinventing the wheel. Thanks very much; I'll redo what I have using
libxml and your code to compare and learn.
Regards,
--
Len
Je suis Marxiste - tendance Groucho
-- Slogan used at Nanterre in Paris, 1968
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-14 2:18 Troubles in Regular Expression Paradise Len Blanks
2014-05-14 12:40 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-05-14 22:07 ` Len Blanks [this message]
[not found] <mailman.1280.1400034904.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-14 2:56 ` Joost Kremers
2014-05-14 3:13 ` Len Blanks
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=m2fvkc6mls.fsf@haruspex.net \
--to=ltb@haruspex.net \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).