man xml-to-sexp (Commandes) - convert XML to symbolic expressions
NAME
xml-to-sexp - convert XML to symbolic expressions
SYNOPSIS
xml-to-sexp
DESCRIPTION
ml-to-sexp reads from stdin and output to stdout.
NOTES
This program uses the expat parser library by James Clark, which comes dual-licenced under the MPL/GPL. This wrapper for expat parses standard input and outputs a simple, lisp-readable representation of the file, with the following features:
- Translates UTF-8 to ISO Latin-1, so that the resulting output can be used as-is with normal 8bit Unix lisps. Stuff outside of ISO Latin-1 is silently elided (can easily be changed to dump core instead ;).
- PCDATA is mapped to CL strings, where as many PCDATA segments as possible are merged into one string.
- Elements are mapped to lists, with the first item being the start tag, which is mapped to a nested list, i.e.
<element attr="value">...</element> is mapped to (("element" "attr" "value") ...)
- Processing Instructions (PIs) are mapped to a single cons, i.e. <?foo ...?> is mapped to ("foo" . "...")
AUTHORS
This man page was writting by Kevin Rosenberg <kmr@debian.org> since the upstream program did not include a man page.