Re: XMLAda dom document to string

["Björn Lundin" <bnl@spray.se>]

2005-04-13 kl. 09.03 skrev Alex R. Mosteo:

> Björn Lundin wrote:
>> Hello!
>> Is there a way of converting a dom document from
>> XML/Ada (1.0) to a string?
>> I found a Print in DOM.Core.Nodes that prints out a document to std  
>> out.
>> That is actually what I want, but to a string instead, that I can put  
>> through a socket later on.
>> I'm sure I've missed something obvious, but I can't see through it.
>> I've also found on a wiki, a way of walking the nodes in a document.,  
>> by David Button,
>> I've been thinking of using it, as a template for a new  
>> procedure/function that does what I want,
>> but I thought I'd ask here first, before I invent the wheel again.
>
> AFAIK, this is not present in that release of XML/Ada. I modified the  
> Print function to get a string. You can look at it at
>
> http://deepsix.homeip.net/svn/Adagio%20head/src/agpl/dom-core-nodes- 
> output.ads
> http://deepsix.homeip.net/svn/Adagio%20head/src/agpl/dom-core-nodes- 
> output.adb

Great, just what I was after :)

Curiosity : what are you escaping?
  Agpl.Xml.Escape is found in the body,
  which I removed.


> but be warned that it performs some pretty printing and by that reason  
> Windows-style new lines are embedded in the resulting string.

I can live with that.


> I'm sure I've talked about this with other people in some mailing  
> list, so no doubt there are alternate solutions out there. It's  
> possible that CVS XML/Ada has it already.

No, not a week  ago anyway. I did download it then, but did not find  
anything helpfull at all.
However I think this qualify for inclusion, except for the with'ed agpl  
package

Thanks a lot
/Björn

Björn Lundin
bnl at spray dot se