[Xml-compile] Schemas with mixed elements

[Mark Overmeer]

* Drew Taylor (drew at drewtaylor.com) [080818 11:31]:
> What I'd like is an option to combine ATTRIBUTES and STRUCTURAL  
> handling on the reader. Going back to my particular need, the xml  
> looks like:
> 
> <Segment>CDATA<Price>...</Price><Foo>...</Foo></Segment>
> 
> The text will only occur once, and it will always be immediately after  
> the parent tag. The new option I'm proposing would separate out the  
> text into the '_' element, perhaps as an array to support multiple  
> text chunks (overkill for me but may be useful to others). This is  
> similar to the TEXTUAL option.  In addition, the remaining non-text  
> elements would be processed and transformed into a data structure as  
> with the STRUCTURAL option.

The problem is purely in the user interface.  Iff we are able to
define a nice, *general purpose* interface, it would be possible to
implement it.  However, I haven't found such an interface smaller
than what XML::LibXML already offers...

> I would be willing to help implement this option, if you 1) don't  
> think I'm crazy and 2) can point me in the right direction.

You are (probably) not crazy ;-)
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               MarkOv

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