World: r3wp

or not

Much neater than my hack!

I've only tested it once :)

I've also noticed that xml-to-object has to be run on a copy .... 
it must alter the original data block it is fed

Proably the source of my earlier issues

Anyway this is looking promising.  I can take an xml message, construct 
a rebol object from it ... rearrange bits to create a new object 
and then create a reply xml message.

why not    either in o 'value?      ?

you can add value? to /local and then do   either value?: in o 'value? 
 [ ...  get value?]

I think I tried

either 'value? = next first o

but I couldn't figure out why that didn't work ...

Your suggestion looks good :)

I did want to make sure that value? was the first member of the object

i see, your problem was that next first o is a block. if you also 
want to make sure there's nothing else in the object (but then... 
why is it an object?), you could check [value?] = next first o   
or [self value?] = first o

It's an object because xml-to-object creates them that way :(

If xml-to-object meets a xml file with a number of elements with 
the same name, it creates a block of objects.

so, this is an attempt to remedy this 

fix-object: func [obj [object!]
	/local o value?
] [
	foreach element next first obj [
		if object? o: get in obj element [
			; is object, so check to see if has value?
			either value?: in o 'value? [
				set in obj element trim/head/tail get value?
			] [
				fix-object o
			]
		]
		if block? o [
			foreach ob o [
				fix-object ob
			]
		]
	]
]

Folks, I have gone through this forum with the hopes that I woul''nt 
bother you with a newb style question. I have been trying all sorts 
of different xml libraries (rebelxml.r, xml-parse.r, xml-object.r) 
 as well as a few others I found. No matter what I do, I can't seem 
to pull the values I need.

Here is the snipped of XMl:   <?xml version="1.0"?>

<xts:sports-content-set xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"query-date-time="20090724T011802-0400" 
query-string="http://fod.xmlteam.com/api-trial/getDocuments?doc-ids=xt.9140271-box"
hostname="fod.xmlteam.com" result-count="1" error-count="0" elapsed-time="64.2ms"><sports-content 
xmlns:str="java.lang.String" xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"
xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
path-id="baseball/l.mlb.com/event-summary/xt.9140271-box" xts:systemid="MLB_Boxscore_XML" 
xts:tsnid="9140271">

  <sports-metadata xmlns:fs="java.io.File" date-time="20090323T193000-0400" 
  doc-id="xt.9140271-box" xts:tsnslug="AAX%BOX-LOS-ANA" language="en-US" 
  revision-id="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882-event-stats-sportsnetwork.com" 
  fixture-key="event-stats" document-class="event-summary" fixture-name="Box 
  Score">

    <sports-title>Boxscore: LA Angels vs. Los Angeles</sports-title>
    <sports-content-codes>

      <sports-content-code code-name="The Sports Network" code-key="sportsnetwork.com" 
      code-type="publisher"/>

      <sports-content-code code-name="XML Team Solutions, Inc." code-key="xmlteam.com" 
      code-type="distributor"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="sport" code-key="15007000" code-name="Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="league" code-key="l.mlb.com" code-name="Major 
      League Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="season-type" code-key="pre-season"/>
      <sports-content-code code-type="season" code-key="2009"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="priority" code-key="normal"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.national" 
      code-name="National"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.american" 
      code-name="American"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.11" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Angels"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Dodgers"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="action-listing" code-key="complete"/>
    </sports-content-codes>
  </sports-metadata>
  <sports-event xmlns:fs="java.io.File">

    <event-metadata xmlns:xte="www.xmlteam.com/xte" date-coverage-type="event" 
    event-key="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" date-coverage-value="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" 
    event-status="post-event" duration="2:58" start-date-time="20090323T160500-0400" 
    xts:game-of-day="1">
      <sports-content-codes/>
      <event-metadata-baseball/>
      <site>
        <site-metadata>
          <home-location/>
        </site-metadata>
        <site-stats attendance="8704"/>
      </site>
    </event-metadata>
    <team>
      <team-metadata team-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" alignment="away">
        <name first="Los Angeles" last="Dodgers"/>
      </team-metadata>

      <team-stats score="4" score-opposing="10" event-outcome="loss">
        <sub-score period-value="1" score="1"/>
        <sub-score period-value="2" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="3" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="4" score="3"/>
        <sub-score period-value="5" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="6" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="7" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="8" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="9" score="0"/>
        <team-stats-baseball>

          <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="4" at-bats="36" hits="9" rbi="4" 
          bases-on-balls="2" strikeouts="4" doubles="0" triples="0" home-runs="0" 
          grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
          stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" left-on-base="7"/>

          <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>

          <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="10" hits="13" earned-runs="10" 
          bases-on-balls="6" strikeouts="8" era="10.000" balks="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" 
          number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" shutouts="0" games-complete="0" 
          wins="0" losses="1"/>
        </team-stats-baseball>
      </team-stats>
      <player id="b.11965">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.11965" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Matt" last="Kemp"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="2" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".271"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>

Using rebelxml.r I have tried: get-xml-data/content/with-attribute 
 'xts:sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/sports-content-codes 
'/sports-content-code/code-type "sport" and many variations of this 
statement.  Using:  obj-xml  I have tried variations of obj-xml/document/xts-sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/sports-content-codes/sports-content-code/value?



As an example I tried to pull out the league information but could 
not, However I was able to pull out the TITLE using obj-xml/document/xts-sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/
sports-title/value? 


Obviously, I am clueless, so if anyone can point me in the right 
direction for a well document library (Hopefully with examples) that 
would be great. Otherwise if there is something glaring that I am 
doing wrong, please let me know.

Thanks,
Charlie

Rebol's open source xml parsers are not fully complete.  Where is 
the full XML file that the fragment comes from?

I<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xts:sports-content-set xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"query-date-time="20090724T011802-0400" 
query-string="http://fod.xmlteam.com/api-trial/getDocuments?doc-ids=xt.9140271-box"
hostname="fod.xmlteam.com" result-count="1" error-count="0" elapsed-time="64.2ms"><sports-content 
xmlns:str="java.lang.String" xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"
xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
path-id="baseball/l.mlb.com/event-summary/xt.9140271-box" xts:systemid="MLB_Boxscore_XML" 
xts:tsnid="9140271">

  <sports-metadata xmlns:fs="java.io.File" date-time="20090323T193000-0400" 
  doc-id="xt.9140271-box" xts:tsnslug="AAX%BOX-LOS-ANA" language="en-US" 
  revision-id="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882-event-stats-sportsnetwork.com" 
  fixture-key="event-stats" document-class="event-summary" fixture-name="Box 
  Score">

    <sports-title>Boxscore: LA Angels vs. Los Angeles</sports-title>
    <sports-content-codes>

      <sports-content-code code-name="The Sports Network" code-key="sportsnetwork.com" 
      code-type="publisher"/>

      <sports-content-code code-name="XML Team Solutions, Inc." code-key="xmlteam.com" 
      code-type="distributor"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="sport" code-key="15007000" code-name="Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="league" code-key="l.mlb.com" code-name="Major 
      League Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="season-type" code-key="pre-season"/>
      <sports-content-code code-type="season" code-key="2009"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="priority" code-key="normal"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.national" 
      code-name="National"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.american" 
      code-name="American"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.11" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Angels"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Dodgers"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="action-listing" code-key="complete"/>
    </sports-content-codes>
  </sports-metadata>
  <sports-event xmlns:fs="java.io.File">

    <event-metadata xmlns:xte="www.xmlteam.com/xte" date-coverage-type="event" 
    event-key="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" date-coverage-value="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" 
    event-status="post-event" duration="2:58" start-date-time="20090323T160500-0400" 
    xts:game-of-day="1">
      <sports-content-codes/>
      <event-metadata-baseball/>
      <site>
        <site-metadata>
          <home-location/>
        </site-metadata>
        <site-stats attendance="8704"/>
      </site>
    </event-metadata>
    <team>
      <team-metadata team-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" alignment="away">
        <name first="Los Angeles" last="Dodgers"/>
      </team-metadata>

      <team-stats score="4" score-opposing="10" event-outcome="loss">
        <sub-score period-value="1" score="1"/>
        <sub-score period-value="2" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="3" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="4" score="3"/>
        <sub-score period-value="5" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="6" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="7" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="8" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="9" score="0"/>
        <team-stats-baseball>

          <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="4" at-bats="36" hits="9" rbi="4" 
          bases-on-balls="2" strikeouts="4" doubles="0" triples="0" home-runs="0" 
          grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
          stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" left-on-base="7"/>

          <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>

          <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="10" hits="13" earned-runs="10" 
          bases-on-balls="6" strikeouts="8" era="10.000" balks="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" 
          number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" shutouts="0" games-complete="0" 
          wins="0" losses="1"/>
        </team-stats-baseball>
      </team-stats>
      <player id="b.11965">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.11965" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Matt" last="Kemp"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="2" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".271"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.7103">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.7103" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Jason" last="Repko"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".219"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.9917">

        <player-metadata position-event="9" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.9917" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Andre" last="Ethier"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="1" at-bats="3" hits="2" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="1" strikeouts="0" singles="2" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".204"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.6892">

        <player-metadata position-event="pr,7" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.6892" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="John-Ford" last="Griffin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".000"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.3810">

        <player-metadata position-event="dh" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.3810" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Manny" last="Ramirez"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="3" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="2" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".200"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.9776">

        <player-metadata position-event="ph,dh" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.9776" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="A.J." last="Ellis"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".320"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.6773">

        <player-metadata position-event="3" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.6773" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="James" last="Loney"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".241"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.5664">

        <player-metadata position-event="3" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.5664" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Doug" last="Mientkiewicz"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="0" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".238"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.13237">

        <player-metadata position-event="2" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.13237" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Russell" last="Martin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="1" at-bats="3" hits="2" rbi="1" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="2" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".394"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.7897">

        <player-metadata position-event="2" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.7897" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Danny" last="Ardoin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".375"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.2687">

        <player-metadata position-event="5" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.2687" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Mark" last="Loretta"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".250"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.14163">

        <player-metadata position-event="5" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.14163" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Luis" last="Maza"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".100"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.17507">

        <player-metadata position-event="4" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.17507" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Blake" last="DeWitt"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".288"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.1347">

        <player-metadata position-event="4" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.1347" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Juan" last="Castro"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".436"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.14313">

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            xts:losses-season="0" xts:saves-season="0" xts:saves-blown-season="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="p.20370">

        <player-metadata position-event="1" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.20370" 
        status="finished">
          <name first="Mason" last="Tobin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="0" innings-pitched="1" hits="0" 
            earned-runs="0" bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" era="0.00" balks="0" 
            shutouts="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" 
            wins="0" losses="0" saves-blown="0" saves="0" xts:wins-season="0" 
            xts:losses-season="0" xts:saves-season="0" xts:saves-blown-season="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
    </team>
    <officials>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Home Plate Umpire">
          <name full="Jim Wolf"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="First Base Umpire">
          <name full="Bob Davidson"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Second Base Umpire">
          <name full="Mike Winters"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Third Base Umpire">
          <name full="Mike Everitt"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
    </officials>
    <event-actions>
      <event-actions-baseball/>
    </event-actions>
    <highlight class="double-plays">
      <p>Los Angeles 2; LA Angels 1.</p>
    </highlight>
  </sports-event>
</sports-content></xts:sports-content-set>

Is there a more sutiable language for parsing the XML?

parse-xml and xml-to-object seems to work okay on this file.

It reads and parses ok. I get the block object but my problem is 
trying to access the individual elements. When venturing into some 
of the nested attributes, I just can't seem to get it returning a 
result.. Can you post an example on how you would retrieve the "hits" 
for <player id="b.11965"> or get the league info from sports-content-code 
code-type="league"

>> do %xml-parse.r

Script: "A more XML 1.0 compliant set of XML parsing tools." (4-Dec-2001)
>> do %xml-object.r

Script: {Convert an XML-derived block structure into objects.} (29-Sep-2001)
>> obj: first reduce xml-to-object parse-xml+ read %test.xml
>> data: second obj
== [make object! [
        xts:sports-content-set: make object! [
            sports-content: make object! [
                sports...
>> type? data
== block!
>> probe data/2/sports-content/sports-event/team/1/player/1
make object! [
    player-metadata: make object! [
        name: make object! [
            value?: ""
            first: "Matt"
            last: "Kemp"
        ]
        position-event: "8"
        player-key: "l.mlb.com-p.11965"
        status: "starter"
    ]
    player-stats: make object! [
        player-stats-baseball: make object! [
            stats-baseball-offensive: make object! [
                value?: ""
                runs-scored: "0"
                at-bats: "4"
                hits: "1"
                rbi: "2"
                bases-on-balls: "0"
                strikeouts: "0"
                singles: "1"
                doubles: "0"
                triples: "0"
                home-runs: "0"
                grand-slams: "0"
                sac-flies: "0"
                sacrifices: "0"
                grounded-into-double-play: "0"
                stolen-bases: "0"
                stolen-bases-caught: "1"
                hit-by-pitch: "0"
                average: ".271"
            ]
            stats-baseball-defensive: make object! [
                value?: ""
                errors: "0"
                errors-passed-ball: "0"
            ]
        ]
    ]
    id: "b.11965"
]

if you download anamonitor300.r, then you can browse the object  
like this

mon data

mon obj won't work because of the ":" in the object name

It should be easy enough to write a recurseive function that descends 
thru the object looking for some text, and then to print out the 
full path for you as in the recursive examples I posted above.

make that "straight forward" vs "easy"

Thank you so much Graham, I will give it a try as you have indicated 
and will alsodownload anamonitor300.r

Good luck with this stuff .. it's pretty tedious navigating thru 
large objects like this ...

>> do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altxml.r
connecting to: www.ross-gill.com
Script: "AltXML" (7-Jun-2009)
>> all-stats: load-xml/dom your-xml-data 
>> player: stats/get-by-id "b.11965"                        
>> his-stats: first player/get-by-tag <stats-baseball-offensive>
>> his-stats/get #hits                                          
== "1"


>> remove-each code codes: all-stats/get-by-tag <sports-content-code> 
["league" <> code/get #code-type]
== [make object! [
        name: <sports-content-code>
        space: none
        value: [
            #code-type "league" 
      ...
>> foreach code codes [probe code/get #code-name]
Major ^/      League Baseball
== "Major ^/      League Baseball"

How is your parser getting on these days?

Still seems to work as advertised - good for extraction; still missing 
the 'flatten function. Not much time for development in the schema 
direction though : (

I'm guessing that it should be "all-stats/get-by-id" and not "stats/get-by-id"

Chris, do you documentation yet for your parser?

Doesn't go into much detail, but: http://www.ross-gill.com/page/XML+and+REBOL

Given some xml like this which is a list of documents http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#ListDocs

how would your parser extract the <gd:resourceid> and text associated 
with these tags?

again .. how would you use your parser to exxtract the <gd:resourceid> 
tags and associated text?

>> google-xml: load-xml/dom clipboard:// ; copied from page
>> entries: google-xml/get-by-tag <entry>
== [make object! [
        name: <entry>
        space: none
        value: [
            #etag {"BxAUSh5RAyp7ImBq"} 
            <...
>> foreach entry entries [probe entry/get <resourceId>]
spreadsheet:key
== "spreadsheet:key"

Note that while it appears namespaces have been stripped, they are 
in fact still there:

>> entry: first entries                   
>> id: first entry/get-by-tag <resourceId>             
>> id/space                               
== <gd>

So, looks feasible to use your parser to create an api for googledocs 
...

There's a rebzip script which has recently been updated on rebol.org 
which I guess can be used to open up docx

Sounds like too much overhead ... unzip the docx, make changes to 
the xml portion and then rezip.

I will need a xml parser .. I was thinkinf something fast and quick 
like sax style .. I found this one http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml-parse.r
but by looking of it it seems to offer a lot of things I don't need. 
Has anyone used it for "serrious" xml parsing with it. I am thinking 
of making my own simple minimal event based xml parser.

Yes, I have used it to parse large XML files

You can turn the xml file into a rebol object with it

I imagine that is too costly .. I preferr the callback model to just 
extract the relevant data out

Mine is a desktop application .. your needs for a web service differ 
..

yes, I get a big xml made by "official" BLOATED standard for invoices 
.. I want to parse it as quick as possible and that's all

Janko,
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebxml/rebxml-spec.html
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml2rebxml.r
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebxml2xml.r