From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: XML parsing advice Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:48:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87libfw00w.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359384566 9768 80.91.229.3 (28 Jan 2013 14:49:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:49:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 28 15:49:46 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1p-0003IS-7E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:49:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50978 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1X-0000Pr-FF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:49:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1S-0000P9-Ks for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:49:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1K-0008Hm-Uo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:49:22 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34739) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1K-0008HX-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tzq1a-0003FE-G5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:49:30 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.161.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:49:30 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:49:30 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-161-76.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t09xbAYzMckwDvhD7teDu9mi1y0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88852 Archived-At: > I need to go the whole round trip: parsing a file, editing nodes and > attributes, and then saving the tree back to an XML file. Recent Emacsen can be compiled with libxml2. Currently this only provides access to the parser (see libxml-parse-xml-region and libxml-parse-html-region), but we could extend it to provide access to other parts of the libxml2 API. Stefan