2013/7/14 MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com:
Strainu wrote:
I'm trying to parse the following xml (abbriged for brevity):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<județ> <siruta>47</siruta> <nume>Județul Bacău</nume> </județ>
Every validator I've tried marks an error on the ț in the tag named județ.
Hi.
This list is a fine place to ask. :-)
Hi,
Are you having trouble with validation or parsing? Validators can simply be wrong. Which validators are you using? And which parsers are you using?
I'm having trouble with both. I used the W3C validator [1], which wasn't designed for random XML files, but can still find a good number of errors and xmlvalidation.com [2]. On the parsing side, I tried with python's lxml; the output is available at [3]
Can you be more specific about what you're trying to do (feel free to link to or include sample code) and the tools you're trying to do it with?
Well, I have a PHP website which gathers public data about Romania's administrative units, which I then try to export in programming-friendly formats (CSV, JSON, XML). The workflow is: extract the data from the database, put it in a PHP array, then use this array to generate all the output formats. You have an example of such an array at [4] (since my initial email I've worked around the diacritics problem, but I'm still searching for a solution). For converting to XML I have a custom array_walk function [5].
I know that some potential reusers are heavy XML fans, so I wanted to give them an easy way to reuse the data. Having the XML tags/JSON keys with diacritics is not a must have, but is definitely a very nice feature, because those keys could be used directly as labels when printing the data somewhere.
Regards, Strainu
[1] http://validator.w3.org/ [2] http://www.xmlvalidation.com/ [3] https://gist.github.com/mgax/f6a3edc5b4883b3377e8 [4] https://github.com/strainu/despresate/blob/master/include/sat_functions.php#... [5] https://github.com/strainu/despresate/blob/master/include/common.php#L57