From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Querying sexps a la XPath? Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:02:50 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87eimv3wcl.fsf@informatimago.com> References: <046d11bd-38a2-408d-9c80-9885d835ec8b@r1g2000vbn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1260970908 28333 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2009 13:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:41:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 16 14:41:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NKu8L-0005UQ-6F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:41:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43969 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKu8L-0003ta-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:41:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: individual.net WlawvaDpjfBlSqYZeD5vwAvxUY7USow+2FNkYYNd6gKnHtLB/l Cancel-Lock: sha1:NjcxNDVlODU4OTQ5YmI1N2JmMGI4YzlmNGY2MWY4ZWM4MDk2YmFlNw== sha1:BE8JtmC6F2XuO0T47W/XZ19ZwdY= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175600 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70675 Archived-At: Elena writes: > Hello, > > I have to extract data from some nodes belonging an XML document. I've > found a way to navigate the document structure in the XML Parser > Examples page in EmacsWiki (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ > XmlParserExamples). > > However, I've often heard that sexps offer similar functionality as > XML. How would then you query a sexps structure? AFAIK, there is no > library implementing something like SXPath in Emacs Lisp. You could easily enough translate SXPath from scheme to emacs lisp. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com