Re: Code for placing a XML dock in a GtkTree?

[Carlos Pereira <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>]

I totally agree with Greg on this,

Expat is a great piece of software, arguably the fastest XML parser on 
Earth, low memory usage, very elegant, so important in current days that 
Linux distros as Fedora and Suse store Expat on /lib instead of /usr/lib 
(with symlinks from /usr/lib), so it can be used even when /usr/lib is 
not mounted...

Expat comes with a good manual, several examples, and the people on the 
(low-traffic) mailling list is very knowleadgeble and willing to help 
newbies...

In my case, I use Expat to load object and config XML data (plus XHTML 
doc files...) to my memory engine. The object data hierarchy in turn can 
be seen with GtkTreeView widgets, as you want.

Of course don't expect to be a Expat expert in 24 hours, but you will 
not regret going with Expat.

Carlos
> G Hasse wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | To place an XML document in a GtkTree must be a fairly common
> | stuff to do. Can anyone point me to some examples or code I would
> | be happy.
> |
>
> Basically you use something like an XML_Parser (from 
> http://www.libexpat.org/), you're
> distro may have the "expat" package, well, you'll need expat-devel, 
> and #include <expat.h>)
>
> XML_Parser is setup with callback routines that are passed the xml 
> tag, and associated data.
>
> The XML_Parser object is then used to parse the xml blob, and it will 
> call callback
> routines at each xml level.
>
> The callback routine then decides what to do with the tag (and 
> associated date). It might,
> for example, create a new row in the GtkTree, or it might create a new 
> node, or it might
> ignore the data altogether.
>
>
> | Greg Hosler                    ghosler redhat com    |