What: | xmlgen / htmlgen |
Where: | http://sourceforge.net/projects/tclxml/ |
Description: | Extension for easy, dynamic creation of HTML/XML with Tcl. Works in a fashion similar to cgi.tcl. xmlgen can be used to generate XML; htmlgen is built on top of xmlgen to generate HTML. |
Currently at 1.4.0. | |
Updated: | 05/2002 |
Contact: | mailto:[email protected] (Harald Kirsch) |
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SC I've just been reading about Genx [1] which is a C library for generating XML written by Tim Bray. The main differences between the capabilities of xmlgen and Genx seem to be:- Handling of XML Namespaces
- Generation of Canonical XML [2]
xmlns rdf "http://http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns\#" xmlns rdfs "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema\#" declaretag foo -namespace rdf declaretag bar -namespace rdfs foo ! { bar - This is content bar - this is also content }To make this work, the root element should have the namespace declaration attributes included:
<foo xmlns:rdf="http..." xmlns:rdfs="http..."> <bar>...</bar> </foo>A quick look at the code makes me think that this modification might not be too hard to make (add the ns attributes in makeTagAndBody when the indent is "" -- or perhaps more properly add a nesting counter and add the attributes when it's zero). Having figured this out I might well go an implement this next time I need to generate XML with namespaces, this note is just in case anyone else wants to have a go instead.09nov05 jcw - For a somewhat unconventional use of this package, see An indentation syntax for Tcl, end of page.
Harald Kirsch