Re: [Vala] [Genie] Using MarkupParser

[Patrick Castle <lemeia bigpond com>]

Abderrahim Kitouni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2009/10/25 Patrick Castle <lemeia bigpond com>:
>   
> > I've been trying to learn Genie and it's going OK for the moment. However, I was
> > trying to translate a Vala example using MarkupParser in GLib and I was coming
> > unstuck on how to define multiple anonymous functions in a comma-separated
> > parameter list.
> >
> >     
> [...]
>   
> > I attempted with:
> >
> >    parser : MarkupParser = { def (ctx, elem, attribute_names, attribute_values)
> >        print("start |%s|\n", elem)
> >        for i : int = 0 to attribute_names.length
> >            print("Attribute name: %s, value: %s\n", attribute_names[i],
> > attribute_values[i]), \
> >        def (ctx, elem)
> >            print("end |%s|\n", elem), \
> >        def (ctx, text, text_len)
> >            print("text %ld |%s|\n", (long)text_len, text), \
> >        null, null }
> >
> >     
> I think it should be that way, but this doesn't work, I think this is a bug.
> I've already came across this (I'm trying to port a python library to
> genie), and passing even a single parameter won't work, I think Genie
> needs a test suite (a good start is to translate some of the examples
> on the wiki, I'll try to do some tonight).
>
> Abderrahim
>
>   
At the moment I'm avoiding the problem by using libxml instead. I've got 
something functional at least - I really wasn't getting anywhere with 
MarkupParser.
I'm still interested in the answer to the question though as I'm sure 
something like this will come up again some time.

Patrick