I am new to TCLXML and would be very greatfull for some basic examples.   If
I use TCLDOM, does that work on raw XML?  Or does the XML need to be put
into some other format?

thank you in advance for your help,

 -Anthony

On 2/1/07, Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@[...].au>  wrote:
> 
>  Hi Anthony,
> 
>  TclXML gives you a streaming interface, which means that your
>  application must keep track of the state of the parser as it goes
>  through the document structure.  So you have to use *both* the tags
>  and data to make it all work together.
> 
>  If you're worried about making that work, then consider using TclDOM
>  instead.  With a DOM tree the context has already been built for you.
> 
>  If you're feeling more adventurous, you could develop a solution that
>  uses a combination of XSLT and Tcl, based on TclXSLT.  A lot of code
>  that I write these days uses an XSL stylesheet to process the XML
>  document, and the result of the stylesheet is a Tcl script that the
>  Tcl application eval's.
> 
>  Hope that helps,
>  Steve Ball
> 
>  On 01/02/2007, at 10:33 AM, Anthony G wrote:
> 
>  > Hello TCLXML experts :)
>  >
>  > I have been searching for a few days online for tutorials on how to
>  > use TCLXML and I have a very basic task.  I want to be able to take
>  > an xml file say like this
>  >
>  > <MY_STRUCTURE>
>  >  <TAG2> tag2 data </TAG2>
>  >  <TAG3> tag3 data </TAG3>
>  >  <TAG4>
>  >    <TAG5> tag5 data </TAG5>
>  >    <TAG6> tag6 data </TAG6>
>  >  </TAG4>
>  > </MY_STRUCTURE>
>  >
>  > and export the data above into a data structure, say a list or
>  > maybe even a hastable (TCL ARRAY)
>  >
>  > for example I would want to create an array
>  >
>  > MYSTRUCTURE
>  >
>  > with the index's based on the TAGS that fall under it example
>  >
>  > set MYSTRUCTURE(TAG2) "tag2 data"
>  > set MYSTRUCTURE(TAG3) "tag3 data"
>  > set MYSTRUCTURE(TAG4,TAG5) "tag5 data"
>  > set MYSTRUCTURE(TAG4,TAG6) "tag6 data"
>  >
>  > or something like this... where the index indicates level...
>  >
>  > what I have seen so far is that I can use the xml::parser to pull
>  > out tags and data, but none at the same time...
>  >
>  > set parser [::xml::parser -characterdatacommand cdata] <--- will
>  > pull out data between tags
>  > set parser2 [::xml::parser -elementendcommand cdata2] <--- will
>  > give me names of tags after END is hit...
>  >
>  > is there a way to combine the functionality of these so that I can
>  > see what data falls under which tags?
>  >
>  > Thank you for your help and have a great day
>  >
>  >  -Anthony
>  >
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