I've got xml text of a Bible version. I want to get the text in the following format:

class Bible {
  Book[] bs;
}

class Book {
  Chapter[] cs;
}

class Chapter {
  Verse[] vs;
}

class Verse {
  string v;
}

Here's a part of the xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<bible>
<b n="Genesis">
<c n="1">
<v n="1">In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.</v>
<v n="2">The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God

I would like any pointers on xml with D.

- Joelcnz

I suggest xmlp

http://www.dsource.org/projects/xmlp/

Example:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/xmlp/browser/trunk/test/books.d

He intends to push for it to be in Phobos so it uses the std namespace.

import std.xml2;

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:31:06 +1300, Joel Christensen wrote:

> I would like any pointers on xml with D.
> 
> - Joelcnz

I think I want to stick with the current std xml library for now.

I think the books example is too different for me to work for what I want.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:21:22 +1300, Joel Christensen wrote:

> I think I want to stick with the current std xml library for now.

No, you don't. It's a terrible library, held together by lashings of hate and the power of Satan*





*only half kidding

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:03:05 +0000, Bernard Helyer wrote:

> and the power of Satan*

Err, I can see how that could be construed as in poor taste, considering the subject matter of the XML document. I meen no offense. >_<

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:04:53 +0000, Bernard Helyer wrote:

> meen

Just not my day, is it?

I don't care to learn xml at this stage. I just want to use it on that Bible file.

On 19-Oct-11 8:03 PM, Bernard Helyer wrote:
>
>> I think I want to stick with the current std xml library for now.
>

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:45:29 +1300, Joel Christensen wrote:

> I don't care to learn xml at this stage.

What do you mean by "learn xml"? I'm saying std.xml is a terrible library, and furthermore will be deprecated sooner or later. Use another library. There is already a suggestion in this thread, and I can give one too if you want. Friends don't let friends use std.xml.

On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:21:22 +1300, Joel Christensen wrote:

> I think I want to stick with the current std xml library for now.
> 
> I think the books example is too different for me to work for what I want.

std.xml has had many bugs, and hasn't had most of them fixed. It might work for your desire, but it is a bad idea to rely on such.

xmlp is about the same as std.xml so you're going to have to learn something about parsing with delegates.

I found std.xml useless too, so I wrote my own lib.

https://github.com/adamdruppe/misc-stuff-including-D-programming-language-web-stuff

Grab dom.d from there. First, convert your file to UTF-8. My lib
might work for you, but it assumes utf-8 so it will throw if it actually
encounters a non-ascii character from the 8859-1 charset.


Anyway the D code for dealing with that would look something like this:


import std.file;
import std.stdio;
import arsd.dom;

void main() {
    auto document = new Document(readText("bible.xml"));

    // the document is now the bible

    auto books = document.getElementsByTagName("b");
    foreach(book; books) {
       auto nameOfBook = b.n; // "Genesis" for example. All xml attributes are
available this same way

       auto chapters = book.getElementsByTagName("c");
       foreach(chapter; chapters) {
            auto verses = chapter.getElementsByTagName("v");
            foreach(verse; verses) {
                 auto v = verse.innerText;

                 // let's write out a passage
                 writeln(nameOfBook, " ", chapter.n, ":", verse.n, " ", v); //
prints "Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created [...]
            }
       }
    }
}