shymega
Hi there.
I’m using :xmerl to develop a OPML library for Elixir (but might write one for Erlang as well) and I don’t quite understand the result that :xmerl.scan(data) gives me.
Does anyone have an easy to understand article or book that explains Erlang’s XML comprehension well? I’m struggling to understand it so far.
Thanks!
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OvermindDL1
It should be returning an xmerl scan record as I recall, so you could load that record format.
NobbZ
Does this gist help you?
OvermindDL1
Ah yep, that hrl file contains the records. Look at Elixir’s
Recordmodule to see how to bring it in.shymega
Your answer kind of helped me. I think I need to do some more research at the moment. Right now, I’m finding the output from
:xmerl_scan.string(xml_data)very verbose, and I’m getting a bit overwhelmed by it.Thanks for your help, though! I appreciate it.
NobbZ
Well, you get an full representation of the xml in erlang terms. In xmerl there should be proper tooling to query and iterate that structure.