DDSL

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Modules

• ddsl
• ddsl.xtypes
• ddsl.xtypes.utils
• ddsl.xtypes.xml
• ddsl.xtypes.xml.parser
• logger

Scripts

• xml2idl

Topics

• README
• CHANGELOG

Examples

• ddsl_tutorial.lua

Module ddsl.xtypes.xml.parser

Parse a well formed XML string, and generate an equivalent Lua table.

The Lua table is connstructed as follows.

• XML String:

  <tag attr1=value1 attr2=value2>
    <child1> ... </child1>
    <child2> ... </child2>
    <!--comment -->
  </tag>
  

• Lua Table:

  tag = {
    -- array: children: tag[i] --
    { -- child1: recursive },
    { -- child2: recursive },
    "<!--comment ",
  
    -- map: tag name and attributes: tag.label, tag.xarg --
    xarg  = { -- may be empty
      attr1 = value1
      attr2 = value2
    }
    label = "tag",
    [empty=1,] -- iff there are no child tags
  }
  

Functions

table2luastring (tbl)	Convert a Lua table to an equivalent string representation.
xmlstring2table (s)	Convert an XML string to a Lua table.

Functions

table2luastring (tbl)

Convert a Lua table to an equivalent string representation. The string can be is a dump the table contents in Lua syntax.

Parameters:

• tbl table a Lua table

Returns:

string the contents of the table as a string

xmlstring2table (s)

Convert an XML string to a Lua table.

Parameters:

• s string XML string

Returns:

table table containing the equivalent Lua table representation