Help using :xmerl to develop a OPML library

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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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It should be returning an xmerl scan record as I recall, so you could load that record format. :slight_smile:

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Does this gist help you?

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Ah yep, that hrl file contains the records. Look at Elixir’s Record module to see how to bring it in. :slight_smile:

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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. :thumbsup:

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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.

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