XML Parser

Description

The XML parser allows you to have XML rendered nicely inside Moin's code blocks.

Download & Release Notes

Installation

For general installation instructions, see ParserMarket/InstallingParsers. This parser requires no special dependencies, such as outside Python libraries.

Usage

To use this parser, simply put #!xml after the beginning of the code block.

Example

{{{#!xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- This is a comment. -->
<name attribute="value">content</name>
}}}

Copyright

This parser is copyrighted by DavinDubeau

License

This parser is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Discussion

We need a much better XML parser. This one does not seem to work under 1.5.3. Error message is maximum recursion limit exceeded. See also http://stux.wikiinfo.org/moin.py/Tools/login.xml -- ThiloPfennig 2006-05-24 15:22:13

Ideas

• This plugin should rather use some XML mechanism rather the regular expressions. (Quote: "Note that parsing HTML or XML with regular expressions is painful. Quick-and-dirty patterns will handle common cases, but HTML and XML have special cases that will break the obvious regular expression; by the time you've written a regular expression that handles all of the possible cases, the patterns will be very complicated. Use an HTML or XML parser module for such tasks.", source: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/)

  • The problem with using a "real" XML parser is that those don't accept fragments. Explaining an XML file in small chunks would be impossible. The Java parsers accept this.
• maybe strip linefeeds before displaying as those should not be of interest?