On 29/04/2008, Jiří Suchomel
Hi hackers,
since yast2-2.16.57 you can use a new agent for reading and writing XML files from YaST. The SCR path is .anyxml -
Finally, :) Only thing I noticed in testing .anyxml is that it is easy to write invalid XML if you don't consider the XML when creating the YCP data structure. For example, the following will generate invalid XML: { map xml = $[ "xmltest": $[ "123one" : $[ "alpha": "alphavalue", "beta": "betavalue", "content": "onecontent" ] ] ]; SCR::Write ( .anyxml, $[ "file": "/tmp/anyxmltest.xml", "xml" : xml ] ); } Since an XML node name must start with a letter. I don't know if there's a way for you to work around this. In other platforms XML marshalling/unmarshalling facilities usually take care that valid XML is always produced, and can be read back into the same structure. I was using Perl XML simple originally for handling XML with metapackage-handler, but changed to Perl XML XPath as dealing with large structures of nested lists of maps of lists of maps became rather verbose and difficult to follow. Even with ForceArray=1 it is possible for two valid instances of the same schema to generate different map/list structures. It would be nice to switch to using an SCR agent for metapackage-handler, but I think it may be impractical to use the XML::Simple based agent. Perhaps I should look at making an XML::XPath agent sometime after 11.0. -- Benjamin Weber