Negative Space: XML
- Add nodes to SimpleXMLElement
- If you want to add child nodes in PHP’s SimpleXML, the correct way to do it is to add the node first, then create it.
- Auto-closing HTML tags in comments
- One of the biggest problems on blogs is that comments often get stuck with unclosed italics, bold, or links. You can automatically close them by transforming the HTML snippet into an XML document.
- Automatically distributing images within XHTML
- One of the nice things about XHTML is that the tools for reading XML have finally matured. So if, for example, I want to have a series of images automatically placed within my web page, I can parse the XHTML of the content to ensure that nothing is broken.
- Catalina: iTunes Library XML
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What does Catalina mean for 42 Astounding Scripts?
- Code formatting Django tag
- xml.dom.minidom makes it easy to format code snippets into lists.
- Django Twitter tag and RSS object
- I wanted to embed my twitter feed into my Django blog, and didn’t see any simple RSS readers for Python that did what I wanted.
- Excerpting partial XHTML using minidom
- You can use xml.dom.minidom to parse partial XHTML as long as you use a few tricks and don’t mind that getElementById doesn’t work.
- GeekTool, TaskPaper, and XML
- A script to convert a TaskPaper file to XML so as to filter it for specific tags and display the results on the Desktop.
- Get element by id in Inkscape
- A Google search couldn’t find this before, so I’m going to nudge it along. The way to get an Inkscape node by Id in an Effect is with self.getElementById('Id').
- minidom self-closes empty SCRIPT tags
- Python’s minidom will self-close empty script tags—as it should. But it turns out that Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 don’t support empty script tags.
- Parsing JSKit/Echo XML comments files
- While I’m not a big fan of remote comment systems for privacy reasons, I was willing to use JSKit as a temporary solution because they provide an easy XML dump of posted comments. This weekend, I finally moved my main blog to custom comments; here’s how I parsed JSKit’s XML file.
- Parsing JSKit/Echo XML using PHP
- In the comments, dpusa wants to import JSKit comments into WordPress, which uses PHP. Here’s how to parse them using PHP.
- A present for Palm
- Palm needs a little help understanding XML.
More Information
- SimpleXML
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“The SimpleXML extension provides a very simple and easily usable toolset to convert XML to an object that can be processed with normal property selectors and array iterators.”
