HaXml is a collection of utilities for parsing, filtering, transforming, and generating Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents using the programming language Haskell.
Overview.
HaXml utilities include:
HaXml provides a combinator library with a set of higher-order functions which process the XML documents after they are represented using the native Haskell data types. The basic data type is codice_1 which represents the document subset of XML.
HaXml allows converting XML to Haskell data and vice versa, and XML to XML (by transforming or filtering). The common use of the HaXml's parser includes defining the method of traversing the XML data and it has the codice_2 type ("content filter"), where codice_3. It means that this function defined by the user will take a fragment of an XML data and either return more fragments or none at all. This approach allows to choose XML elements satisfying certain conditions (e.g., tags with certain name or all children of a specified tag).
Example.
In the chapter 22 "Extended Example: Web Client Programming" of the Real World Haskell by Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen, the following example is considered. The XML file looks like this (simplified version):
 ;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"? ;
 ;rss xmlns:itunes="[URL] version="2.0" ;
 ;channel ;
 ;title ;Haskell Radio ;/title ;
 ;link ;[URL] ;/link ;
 ;description ;Description of this podcast ;/description ;
 ;item ;First item ;/item ;
 ;item ;Second item ;/item ;
 ;/channel ;
 ;/rss ;
The following content filter is constructed:
channel :: CFilter
channel = tag "rss" / ; tag "channel"
This filter is later used to get the title of the channel:
getTitle :: Content - ; String
getTitle doc = contentToStringDefault "Untitled Podcast" (channel / ; tag "title" / ; txt $ doc)
References.
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