When I exchange lisp-data with XML I get such an stripped down XML:
<Group1>
<VAR1>Test</VAR1>
<VAR2></VAR2>
</Group1>
When I want it back to lisp I do:
(xml-type-tags nil nil nil nil)
(xml-parse (read-file "myXml.xml")(+ 1 2 4))
I get:
("Group1"
("VAR1" "Test")
("VAR2")))
Is there any other way to get:
("Group1"
("VAR1" "Test")
("VAR2" "")))
This is a bug, wihtout the option number 1 it should show an empty string. This will be fixed in 8.5.0 due by the end of this week.
Lutz
After thinking more about it I believe, that putting "" not be legal XML/SXML translation. I don't think that an an empty tag implies that this is "empty" whilespace, but I am not quite sure. I will research this when back home in Florida.
Lutz
>I don't think that an an empty tag implies that this is "empty" whitespace
When this is the case then I have to provide another loop to go through my reimported assoc-lists and fill the missing empty parameters in as a string. Not a big problem. Was only a question after the best way to do it.
I want to get back the list as it was before the converting to XML.
2 way interfacing without any loss.
Ot is there a different way to represent an empty string in XML:
<VAR2>EmptyStringPlaceholder</VAR2>
An observation:
A emty XML tag in the source like this:
Shows in IE:
I know html is not xml but I have used
Eddie
You always can put a space in there and leeave out the 1 in the options:
(xml-type-tags nil nil nil nil)
(xml-parse "<var> </var>" (+ 2 4 8)) => ((var " "))
Lutz
ps: travelling back to FL today, so this is probably the last time I am on here today