World: r3wp

Ashley  it looks just like what is after the ? in a GET to a  *.cgi?name="value"&N2="v2"

Ah, thanks. I'll give that a go.

ashley, look at the source for the page, and search for the <form> 
tag. if method="GET", as Tom said, look at the url after pressing 
the submit button and just do a read on a similarly composed url. 
if method="POST", you need to look at all the <input> tags, figure 
out what the query string would be, and send it via POST using read/custom. 
(you could also use wireshark or similar to look at the query string 
the browser is sending if you don't want to look for the <input> 
tags)

All works, "read/custom url reduce ['POST query-string]" did the 
trick! Thanks guys.

My little 64 line script now does the following:


 1) Read Address Book vCard file and extract a list of number/name 
 pairs (I prefix the numbers with 'n to assist with lookups)

 2) Read each Linksys SPA942 IP Phone's call history and create a 
 sorted list of number/frequency pairs

 3) Join these 2 lists and create a query string for matches and an 
 exception report for numbers without an address book entry
	4) POST merged and updated name/number pairs back to each phone


Script took 2 hours to write and debug, runs in 2-3 seconds and gives 
us the features of an advanced call management facility for free. 
Once again, REBOL to the rescue (my business partner shook his head 
when he saw this and just said, "but HOW can REBOL do all this???").

wow

amazing

Such things are unheard of around here.

:-) Good work, Ashley!

Great stuff. I did something similar once. REBOL is fantastic as 
"impossible gluelogic".

REBOL is GLUE! What about calling the new GUI something related to 
glue? Or just "GLUE".

It's also a refernce to the "special" talent of Carl in terms of 
mixing colors ;-)

:)

it's at times like that, that REBOL deserves advertising with a live 
demo.

the first time i saw his new styles, i had some glue in my eyes

is Henrik steel working on revamping ?

*still

oh you're here...

oh i have a better bad puns: GUI-lty

or worst, as u want

This is a quickie -- designed to make 'parse-xml output more parseable:

http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.r

Any thoughts, comments?

; Usage:

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qxml.r
load-xml {<some xml="to">Try</some>}

** Script Error: pop has no value
** Where: load-xml
** Near: mk: insert mk: back mk

Sorry, forgot I'd assigned pop: :take -- try again.

A tag block will always be [tag! any [refinement! [string! | none!]] 
[string! | none! | block!]]

Cool.

Sorry, [tag! any [refinement! [string! | none!]] [string! | none! 
| some block!]]

Sorry!

I've changed this a little.  More or less parseable.

More consistent, I feel.  The result is now of the format: some [thing 
value]

Where 'thing is <tag> /attribute or # for text.  And value is [container] 
"text" or none

>> load-xml {<some xml="to">Try</some>}
==  [
	<some>
		/xml "to"
		# "Try"
	]
]

Hmm, missing bracket.

I thought about the # convention.  # can be used in parse literally. 
 It may have no semantic meaning, but is a very concise anchor.

Also, a tag with no attributes containing only text will only contain 
text:

>> load-xml "<try>This</try>"
== [
    <try> "This"
]

response: context [
	status: name: value: none
]

example: {<rsp>
	<status>Good</status>
	<payload>
		<value name="one">two</value>
	</payload>
</rsp>}

probe make response [
	parse load-xml example [
		<rsp> into [
			<status> set status ["Good" | "Bad"]
			<payload> into [
				<value> into [
					/name set name string! # set value string!
				]
			]
		]
	]
]

All the 'into values are a bit of a pain, but work can be broken 
up...

Note, this parser is destructive - ie. flattening will only provide 
an approximation of the original xml string.

So ymmv depending on need.

; Next, Quick DOM:

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r

Only one method at the moment - get-by-tagname


Note, this is not an attempt to implement W3 DOM.  Just a quick approximation 
for fast manipulation (hence the name).  It's object happy, not sure 
of the weight considerations as such.

do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r

doc: load-dom {<some><xml>to try</xml></some>}
values: doc/get-by-tagname <xml>
values/1/value = "to try"

; You can still parse the tree too:
parse doc/tree [<some> into [<xml> "to try"]]

This is not an exercise in bloat, I plan to implement only a few 
key methods.  Though if anyone has any requests?

Ok, another revision.  This has a few more methods, I may strip them 
down to read-only, as I don't need to manipulate the object though 
I left them in for completeness.

>> do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/qdom.r
connecting to: www.ross-gill.com
Script: "QuickDOM" (none)
>> doc: load-dom {<some><xml id="foo">to try</xml></some>}
>> foo: doc/get-by-id "foo"
>> foo/name
== <xml>
>> foo/value
== [
    /id "foo" 
    # "to try"
]
>> kids: foo/children
== [make object! [
        name: #
        value: "to try"
        tree: [
            # "to try"
        ]
        position: [
   ...
>> kids/1/value
== "to try"
>> doc/tree/<some>/<xml>/(#)           
== "to try"

RebXML spec: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebxml/rebxml-spec.html
Scripts are in the Library: http://www.rebol.org

Has anyone written anything to format/index XML documents?

/indent .. not index

No matter .. it was easy enough.

Now has anyone written a recursive routine to turn a rebol object 
into XML?  I couldn't find anything like this on rebol.org yet it 
doesn't sound hard to do ...