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

[Alias™]

Yeah, funny, I've come to the same conclusion myself. I'm looking into
the php libxslt right now, actually.

Now, all I have to do is learn XSLT again... not touched it for years.

Cheers!
Alias

On 08/10/2007, Peter Hall <peter.hall at memorphic.com> wrote:
> 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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