From: Tammo Tjarks <tammo@...>
Date: 2007-09-05T05:05:06+09:00
Subject: Re: configuration file parser like Config::General for perl


Trans wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 11:35 am, Tammo Tjarks <ta...@tammo-tjarks.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have the problem, that in a project I am working in the configuration
>> files are in a apache config file like format. This is a mixture of
>> XML-Format and normal config format like
>> <id>
>>   name example
>>   use  "for test"
>> <id>
>>
>> The normal used language is perl, where the format, with some extensions,
>> is supported by the Config::General Package.
>> Is the something similar existing for Ruby? I have already searched in
>> rubyforge, but I could not find something fitting. Somehow xmldigest or
>> digestr seems partly to fit, but I am unsure if they support the whole
>> range of the config-file. Or are there some settings existing for the
>> xml-libraries like rexml to support this uncomliant kind of XML?
> 
> I know nothing of the sort. However, if should be pretty easy to use
> REXML to loop through the XML elements and apply a parser to each
> sections text.
> 
> T.

Thanks for your answer. But I am not sure if that works without workaround.
The Problem is, that the apache config file format allowas also things
like:
---------------------

version 1.0

root "not existing"

<display>
 driver X11
 name test
</display>

<modules>
 perl 5.8.2
 ruby 1.8.6
</modules>

--------------------

I should mention that this is a meaningless example. The important point is,
that you do not have proper xpaths and root-nodes. I have tried it once
with rexml and it was somehow complaining (I have to look, but it was
something with a line in rexml with <<) 

What I can try is to surround it by a master-node before read-in but that is 
a hack and I am not sure if it will work. Anyway I will try. 

Regards,
Tammo