Reading and writing XML files from gadgets

[zoner]

Is there a way from the gadgets to read or write xml files ?

[jimandi5000]

Is there a way from the gadgets to read or write xml files ?

YES! It is "Easy as Pie"

What do you need?

[zoner]

I am looking tor a library to write data as xml tree ... to output some calculations to an xml file that will be read with Alibre Design Expert 2019. I'm building things to cut in Aspire but want to see the 3D effect of the many pieces that will be cut ... so ... viewing them assembled in Alibre

I can easily write with io.write ... and build the XML tags manually ... but if there was an existing library ... I would prefer that !

[jimandi5000]

I am looking tor a library to write data as xml tree ... to output some calculations to an xml file that will be read with Alibre Design Expert 2019. I'm building things to cut in Aspire but want to see the 3D effect of the many pieces that will be cut ... so ... viewing them assembled in Alibre

I can easily write with io.write ... and build the XML tags manually ... but if there was an existing library ... I would prefer that !

I have built a set of functions to read, write, and update ini files that could be easily updated to handle the xml tree structure. Let me know. Do you have a sample file? I would like to have a stab at it.

[zoner]

I don't have the structure yet ... I was looking for a path from Aspire to Alibre ...

I will work on my need now (building the layers that will have what will be saved to disk) and will have something next week (for the xml structure)

I did find this : https://github.com/manoelcampos/xml2lua which is suppose to work for lua 5.1 to 5.3 ... will have to test next week I guess !

[Adrian]

There are lots of XML libraries for LUA. I prefer to work in JSON myself when programming but that's not an option for Alibre.

[zoner]

Aspire is lua 5.2 embedded but we still have access to loading libraries from disk thus xml2lua
Alibre is python 2.7 embedded parts of the full library is available only ... but there is an xml parser so ... but no JSON ... which was my first reflex for python ...

20 years ago I did a lot of xml-xsl-xsd so quite at ease with xml

[jimandi5000]

I feel the need for a XML reader / writer function. Would anyone like a copy?

[jimandi5000]

I feel the need for a XML reader / writer function. Would anyone like a copy?

I will add Json.