XML Parser written entirely in Lua that works for Lua 5.1+. Convert XML to and from Lua Tables 🌖💱
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xml2lua is an XML parser written entirely in Lua which doesn't depend on any external C/C++ library. It works for Lua 5.1 to 5.3 and enables:
This version was adapted to work with Lua 5 and can be used in Lua applications, including interactive Digital Television (DTV) http://gingancl.org.br/en[Ginga NCL applications] for the http://www.dtv.org.brBrazilian DTV System.
The original parser was written by Paul Chakravarti and is available on http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml[LuaUsers].
== Installation
=== From LuaRocks repository
The best way to download the module is using https://luarocks.org/modules/manoelcampos/xml2lua[LuaRocks] at the command line:
=== From local sources
Download the source files using the download button above or type at a terminal:
Finally, enter the directory where the source files were downloaded and type:
== How to use
=== Parsing an XML String into a Lua Table
A simplified example which parses an XML directly from a string is presented below. There are some caveats to deal with when an XML has just one tag. Check the link:example1.lua[example1.lua] for details.
local xml2lua = require("xml2lua") --Uses a handler that converts the XML to a Lua table local handler = require("xmlhandler.tree")
local xml = [[
Manoel
Palmas-TO
University of Brasília
Brasília-DF
]]
--Instantiates the XML parser local parser = xml2lua.parser(handler) parser:parse(xml)
--Manually prints the table (since the XML structure for this example is previously known) for i, p in pairs(handler.root.people.person) do print(i, "Name:", p.name, "City:", p.city, "Type:", p._attr.type)
=== Converting a Lua Table to an XML String
local xml2lua = require("xml2lua") local people = { person = { {name="Manoel", city="Palmas-TO", _attr={ type='natural' } }, {name="Breno", city="Palmas-TO", _attr={ type='legal' } } } }
print("People Table\n") xml2lua.printable(people)
print() print("XML Representation\n")
== Command line tool
You can use a command line tool to try parsing XML files. Execute
lua testxml.lua -helpon the terminal for more details.
== Running tests
=== Requeriments
You must have https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/[installed docker and docker compose].
=== How to
make lint # to run the lint check
== License
This code is freely distributable under the terms of the link:LICENSE[MIT license].
== Authors