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

[G Hasse <gorhas raditex se>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 04:33:33PM +0100, Carlos Pereira wrote:
> I totally agree with Greg on this,

Tanks for all your advice. I ended up in using libxml2 and
I have made me some sample programs. It works quite nice.
I do like xpath things in libxml2. And I realy like the
tree-widget in Gtk. Now I can edit elements directly onscreen.
This is great for a customer application I am developing.

> 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    |
>
> _______________________________________________
> gtk-app-devel-list mailing list
> gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list

-- 
Göran Hasse

----------------------------------------------------------------
Göran Hasse           email: gorhas raditex se  Tel: 019-450105
Raditex AB             http://www.raditex.se    
Planiavägen 15, 1tr                             Mob: 070-5530148
131 34  NACKA, SWEDEN                         OrgNr: 556240-0589
VAT: SE556240058901
------------------------------------------------------------------