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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: DOM and SAX parsing in Ada
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:26:39 +0100
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Nick Roberts wrote:
> "okellogg" <okellogg@freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Nov 8 2004, 7:14 pm, Steve wrote:
>>
>>
>>>XML/Ada
>>>
>>>http://libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/
>>>
>>
>>Another one: aDom, http://www.calcalent.com/html/aDom/seite02.htm
> 
> 
>>>"Tim Roede" <timothy.j.roede@boeing.com> wrote in message
>>>news:41900010.D28DD400@boeing.com...
> 
> 
>>>>There is considerable interest in the group I am working with to
>>>>provide XML parsing using both DOM and SAX parsing.  Does anyone have
>>>>a name or a link to a suitable Ada library (similar to xerces)?
> 
> 
> Would anyone be interested in an Ada package that parsed XML (including DTDs
> and entities, with namespace support), but which was written with an
> interface that is (hopefully) better suited to Ada than DOM or SAX?

I for one am interested. What kind of Ada-ish interface have you in 
mind? I have already written a layer on top of Xml/Ada DOM to use path 
oriented queries.

You can check the specs at

http://deepsix.homeip.net/svn/Adagio%20head/src/agpl/agpl-xml.ads

Sadly I just see that gnatpp has lost some of line breaks in comments. 
Some switch I shouldn't have set.

> I have partially written such a package. It is similar to the DOM, but
> slightly higher-level, and much more Ada-friendly (I think). I am in a
> quandary whether to pursue writing this package (for my own XML processing
> needs) or drop it and use someone else's. If I finish it, I'd be happy to
> release it under the GPL.