[GRASS-dev] changing data for parser

[Wolf Bergenheim]

On 22.03.2007 07:31, Michael Barton wrote:
> menuform.py uses the xml text generated by “<command>
> —interface-description” to create the autogenerated dialogs. This dates
> to 2001.
> 
> I was just reminded in a recent post to the grass developer list that
> there is a richer interface description output called by “<command>
> --tcltk”. This has been developed over the past year or so. I give an
> example below (part of the output from “d.vect —tcltk”). We might want
> to consider switching the autogenerated panels to be created by the
> —tcltk code.
> 
> Besides being a richer set of descriptions (includes prompt for notebook
> tabs and color picking dialogs), it looks easier to parse than the
> —interface description xml. It would also mean that we would not need sax.

You are having problems parsing XML? Have you looked at the
xml.dom.minidom package? It provides a clean and easy DOM parser. If you
want I can write the parser (: (yay something I can do for the GUI).

Another, perhaps easier, alternative would be to add a --python flag
which would make the parser spew python code.

--Wolf

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