[osflash] Find/replace xml tags - best approach?

[Peter Hall]

The first two choices are pretty much the same thing, just different
ways of selecting the nodes in the first place. Once you have them,
it's still a bit of a pain to replace nodes.

The best solution is probably XSLT, depending on how complex the
transform that you actually want to do. It could just be overkill. I
am planning to build a full XSLT implementation at some point, but it
won't be any time in the next few months unless there are
volunteers...

Peter


On 10/8/07, Alias™ <alias at proalias.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has any opinions on this. I'm faced with the
> need to search and replace a bunch of XML tags in an AS3 project. The
> tags are going to be nested, and will probably be basic HTML elements,
> and replacing them with other html elements. For various reasons it
> seems that this is necessary because of the project's localisation
> goals.
>
> I'm currently considering the following options:
>
>  - native E4X
>      pros:built in, simple
>      cons:not really powerful enough without writing a lot of code
>  - the memorphic xpath library (http://www.memorphic.com/news/?page_id=16)
>      pros:xpath is nice and what I'm used to
>      cons:might be using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
>  - native regex:
>      pros:built in, lots of prewritten magic regexes which could do the job
>      cons: lots of prewritten magic regexes which could do the job,
> but might also mysteriously fail further down the line
>
> Has anyone had any experiences with this that they'd like to share?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alias
>
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