World: r3wp

why not    either in o 'value?      ?

you can add value? to /local and then do   either value?: in o 'value? 
 [ ...  get value?]

I think I tried

either 'value? = next first o

but I couldn't figure out why that didn't work ...

Your suggestion looks good :)

I did want to make sure that value? was the first member of the object

i see, your problem was that next first o is a block. if you also 
want to make sure there's nothing else in the object (but then... 
why is it an object?), you could check [value?] = next first o   
or [self value?] = first o

It's an object because xml-to-object creates them that way :(

If xml-to-object meets a xml file with a number of elements with 
the same name, it creates a block of objects.

so, this is an attempt to remedy this 

fix-object: func [obj [object!]
	/local o value?
] [
	foreach element next first obj [
		if object? o: get in obj element [
			; is object, so check to see if has value?
			either value?: in o 'value? [
				set in obj element trim/head/tail get value?
			] [
				fix-object o
			]
		]
		if block? o [
			foreach ob o [
				fix-object ob
			]
		]
	]
]

Folks, I have gone through this forum with the hopes that I woul''nt 
bother you with a newb style question. I have been trying all sorts 
of different xml libraries (rebelxml.r, xml-parse.r, xml-object.r) 
 as well as a few others I found. No matter what I do, I can't seem 
to pull the values I need.

Here is the snipped of XMl:   <?xml version="1.0"?>

<xts:sports-content-set xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"query-date-time="20090724T011802-0400" 
query-string="http://fod.xmlteam.com/api-trial/getDocuments?doc-ids=xt.9140271-box"
hostname="fod.xmlteam.com" result-count="1" error-count="0" elapsed-time="64.2ms"><sports-content 
xmlns:str="java.lang.String" xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"
xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
path-id="baseball/l.mlb.com/event-summary/xt.9140271-box" xts:systemid="MLB_Boxscore_XML" 
xts:tsnid="9140271">

  <sports-metadata xmlns:fs="java.io.File" date-time="20090323T193000-0400" 
  doc-id="xt.9140271-box" xts:tsnslug="AAX%BOX-LOS-ANA" language="en-US" 
  revision-id="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882-event-stats-sportsnetwork.com" 
  fixture-key="event-stats" document-class="event-summary" fixture-name="Box 
  Score">

    <sports-title>Boxscore: LA Angels vs. Los Angeles</sports-title>
    <sports-content-codes>

      <sports-content-code code-name="The Sports Network" code-key="sportsnetwork.com" 
      code-type="publisher"/>

      <sports-content-code code-name="XML Team Solutions, Inc." code-key="xmlteam.com" 
      code-type="distributor"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="sport" code-key="15007000" code-name="Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="league" code-key="l.mlb.com" code-name="Major 
      League Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="season-type" code-key="pre-season"/>
      <sports-content-code code-type="season" code-key="2009"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="priority" code-key="normal"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.national" 
      code-name="National"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.american" 
      code-name="American"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.11" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Angels"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Dodgers"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="action-listing" code-key="complete"/>
    </sports-content-codes>
  </sports-metadata>
  <sports-event xmlns:fs="java.io.File">

    <event-metadata xmlns:xte="www.xmlteam.com/xte" date-coverage-type="event" 
    event-key="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" date-coverage-value="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" 
    event-status="post-event" duration="2:58" start-date-time="20090323T160500-0400" 
    xts:game-of-day="1">
      <sports-content-codes/>
      <event-metadata-baseball/>
      <site>
        <site-metadata>
          <home-location/>
        </site-metadata>
        <site-stats attendance="8704"/>
      </site>
    </event-metadata>
    <team>
      <team-metadata team-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" alignment="away">
        <name first="Los Angeles" last="Dodgers"/>
      </team-metadata>

      <team-stats score="4" score-opposing="10" event-outcome="loss">
        <sub-score period-value="1" score="1"/>
        <sub-score period-value="2" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="3" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="4" score="3"/>
        <sub-score period-value="5" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="6" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="7" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="8" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="9" score="0"/>
        <team-stats-baseball>

          <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="4" at-bats="36" hits="9" rbi="4" 
          bases-on-balls="2" strikeouts="4" doubles="0" triples="0" home-runs="0" 
          grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
          stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" left-on-base="7"/>

          <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>

          <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="10" hits="13" earned-runs="10" 
          bases-on-balls="6" strikeouts="8" era="10.000" balks="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" 
          number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" shutouts="0" games-complete="0" 
          wins="0" losses="1"/>
        </team-stats-baseball>
      </team-stats>
      <player id="b.11965">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.11965" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Matt" last="Kemp"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="2" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".271"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>

Using rebelxml.r I have tried: get-xml-data/content/with-attribute 
 'xts:sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/sports-content-codes 
'/sports-content-code/code-type "sport" and many variations of this 
statement.  Using:  obj-xml  I have tried variations of obj-xml/document/xts-sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/sports-content-codes/sports-content-code/value?



As an example I tried to pull out the league information but could 
not, However I was able to pull out the TITLE using obj-xml/document/xts-sports-content-set/sports-content/sports-metadata/
sports-title/value? 


Obviously, I am clueless, so if anyone can point me in the right 
direction for a well document library (Hopefully with examples) that 
would be great. Otherwise if there is something glaring that I am 
doing wrong, please let me know.

Thanks,
Charlie

Rebol's open source xml parsers are not fully complete.  Where is 
the full XML file that the fragment comes from?

I<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xts:sports-content-set xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"query-date-time="20090724T011802-0400" 
query-string="http://fod.xmlteam.com/api-trial/getDocuments?doc-ids=xt.9140271-box"
hostname="fod.xmlteam.com" result-count="1" error-count="0" elapsed-time="64.2ms"><sports-content 
xmlns:str="java.lang.String" xmlns:dt="http://xsltsl.org/date-time"
xmlns:xts="http://www.xmlteam.com"xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
path-id="baseball/l.mlb.com/event-summary/xt.9140271-box" xts:systemid="MLB_Boxscore_XML" 
xts:tsnid="9140271">

  <sports-metadata xmlns:fs="java.io.File" date-time="20090323T193000-0400" 
  doc-id="xt.9140271-box" xts:tsnslug="AAX%BOX-LOS-ANA" language="en-US" 
  revision-id="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882-event-stats-sportsnetwork.com" 
  fixture-key="event-stats" document-class="event-summary" fixture-name="Box 
  Score">

    <sports-title>Boxscore: LA Angels vs. Los Angeles</sports-title>
    <sports-content-codes>

      <sports-content-code code-name="The Sports Network" code-key="sportsnetwork.com" 
      code-type="publisher"/>

      <sports-content-code code-name="XML Team Solutions, Inc." code-key="xmlteam.com" 
      code-type="distributor"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="sport" code-key="15007000" code-name="Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="league" code-key="l.mlb.com" code-name="Major 
      League Baseball"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="season-type" code-key="pre-season"/>
      <sports-content-code code-type="season" code-key="2009"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="priority" code-key="normal"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.national" 
      code-name="National"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="conference" code-key="c.american" 
      code-name="American"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.11" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Angels"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="team" code-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" code-name="Los 
      Angeles Dodgers"/>

      <sports-content-code code-type="action-listing" code-key="complete"/>
    </sports-content-codes>
  </sports-metadata>
  <sports-event xmlns:fs="java.io.File">

    <event-metadata xmlns:xte="www.xmlteam.com/xte" date-coverage-type="event" 
    event-key="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" date-coverage-value="l.mlb.com-2009-e.26882" 
    event-status="post-event" duration="2:58" start-date-time="20090323T160500-0400" 
    xts:game-of-day="1">
      <sports-content-codes/>
      <event-metadata-baseball/>
      <site>
        <site-metadata>
          <home-location/>
        </site-metadata>
        <site-stats attendance="8704"/>
      </site>
    </event-metadata>
    <team>
      <team-metadata team-key="l.mlb.com-t.28" alignment="away">
        <name first="Los Angeles" last="Dodgers"/>
      </team-metadata>

      <team-stats score="4" score-opposing="10" event-outcome="loss">
        <sub-score period-value="1" score="1"/>
        <sub-score period-value="2" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="3" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="4" score="3"/>
        <sub-score period-value="5" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="6" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="7" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="8" score="0"/>
        <sub-score period-value="9" score="0"/>
        <team-stats-baseball>

          <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="4" at-bats="36" hits="9" rbi="4" 
          bases-on-balls="2" strikeouts="4" doubles="0" triples="0" home-runs="0" 
          grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
          stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" left-on-base="7"/>

          <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>

          <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="10" hits="13" earned-runs="10" 
          bases-on-balls="6" strikeouts="8" era="10.000" balks="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" 
          number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" shutouts="0" games-complete="0" 
          wins="0" losses="1"/>
        </team-stats-baseball>
      </team-stats>
      <player id="b.11965">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.11965" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Matt" last="Kemp"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="2" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="1" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".271"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.7103">

        <player-metadata position-event="8" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.7103" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Jason" last="Repko"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".219"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.9917">

        <player-metadata position-event="9" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.9917" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Andre" last="Ethier"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="1" at-bats="3" hits="2" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="1" strikeouts="0" singles="2" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".204"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.6892">

        <player-metadata position-event="pr,7" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.6892" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="John-Ford" last="Griffin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".000"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.3810">

        <player-metadata position-event="dh" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.3810" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Manny" last="Ramirez"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="3" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="2" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="1" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".200"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.9776">

        <player-metadata position-event="ph,dh" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.9776" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="A.J." last="Ellis"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".320"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.6773">

        <player-metadata position-event="3" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.6773" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="James" last="Loney"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="4" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".241"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.5664">

        <player-metadata position-event="3" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.5664" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Doug" last="Mientkiewicz"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="0" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".238"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.13237">

        <player-metadata position-event="2" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.13237" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Russell" last="Martin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="1" at-bats="3" hits="2" rbi="1" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="2" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="1" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".394"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.7897">

        <player-metadata position-event="2" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.7897" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Danny" last="Ardoin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="1" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".375"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.2687">

        <player-metadata position-event="5" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.2687" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Mark" last="Loretta"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".250"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.14163">

        <player-metadata position-event="5" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.14163" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Luis" last="Maza"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="1" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="1" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".100"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.17507">

        <player-metadata position-event="4" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.17507" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Blake" last="DeWitt"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".288"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.1347">

        <player-metadata position-event="4" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.1347" 
        status="bench">
          <name first="Juan" last="Castro"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-offensive runs-scored="0" at-bats="2" hits="0" rbi="0" 
            bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="0" singles="0" doubles="0" triples="0" 
            home-runs="0" grand-slams="0" sac-flies="0" sacrifices="0" grounded-into-double-play="0" 
            stolen-bases="0" stolen-bases-caught="0" hit-by-pitch="0" average=".436"/>

            <stats-baseball-defensive errors="0" errors-passed-ball="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
      <player id="b.14313">

        <player-metadata position-event="7,9" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.14313" 
        status="starter">
          <name first="Xavier" last="Paul"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

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        <player-metadata position-event="1" player-key="l.mlb.com-p.20370" 
        status="finished">
          <name first="Mason" last="Tobin"/>
        </player-metadata>
        <player-stats>
          <player-stats-baseball>

            <stats-baseball-pitching runs-allowed="0" innings-pitched="1" hits="0" 
            earned-runs="0" bases-on-balls="0" strikeouts="1" era="0.00" balks="0" 
            shutouts="0" errors-wild-pitch="0" number-of-pitches="0" number-of-strikes="0" 
            wins="0" losses="0" saves-blown="0" saves="0" xts:wins-season="0" 
            xts:losses-season="0" xts:saves-season="0" xts:saves-blown-season="0"/>
          </player-stats-baseball>
        </player-stats>
      </player>
    </team>
    <officials>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Home Plate Umpire">
          <name full="Jim Wolf"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="First Base Umpire">
          <name full="Bob Davidson"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Second Base Umpire">
          <name full="Mike Winters"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
      <official>
        <official-metadata position="Third Base Umpire">
          <name full="Mike Everitt"/>
        </official-metadata>
      </official>
    </officials>
    <event-actions>
      <event-actions-baseball/>
    </event-actions>
    <highlight class="double-plays">
      <p>Los Angeles 2; LA Angels 1.</p>
    </highlight>
  </sports-event>
</sports-content></xts:sports-content-set>

Is there a more sutiable language for parsing the XML?

parse-xml and xml-to-object seems to work okay on this file.

It reads and parses ok. I get the block object but my problem is 
trying to access the individual elements. When venturing into some 
of the nested attributes, I just can't seem to get it returning a 
result.. Can you post an example on how you would retrieve the "hits" 
for <player id="b.11965"> or get the league info from sports-content-code 
code-type="league"

>> do %xml-parse.r

Script: "A more XML 1.0 compliant set of XML parsing tools." (4-Dec-2001)
>> do %xml-object.r

Script: {Convert an XML-derived block structure into objects.} (29-Sep-2001)
>> obj: first reduce xml-to-object parse-xml+ read %test.xml
>> data: second obj
== [make object! [
        xts:sports-content-set: make object! [
            sports-content: make object! [
                sports...
>> type? data
== block!
>> probe data/2/sports-content/sports-event/team/1/player/1
make object! [
    player-metadata: make object! [
        name: make object! [
            value?: ""
            first: "Matt"
            last: "Kemp"
        ]
        position-event: "8"
        player-key: "l.mlb.com-p.11965"
        status: "starter"
    ]
    player-stats: make object! [
        player-stats-baseball: make object! [
            stats-baseball-offensive: make object! [
                value?: ""
                runs-scored: "0"
                at-bats: "4"
                hits: "1"
                rbi: "2"
                bases-on-balls: "0"
                strikeouts: "0"
                singles: "1"
                doubles: "0"
                triples: "0"
                home-runs: "0"
                grand-slams: "0"
                sac-flies: "0"
                sacrifices: "0"
                grounded-into-double-play: "0"
                stolen-bases: "0"
                stolen-bases-caught: "1"
                hit-by-pitch: "0"
                average: ".271"
            ]
            stats-baseball-defensive: make object! [
                value?: ""
                errors: "0"
                errors-passed-ball: "0"
            ]
        ]
    ]
    id: "b.11965"
]

if you download anamonitor300.r, then you can browse the object  
like this

mon data

mon obj won't work because of the ":" in the object name

It should be easy enough to write a recurseive function that descends 
thru the object looking for some text, and then to print out the 
full path for you as in the recursive examples I posted above.

make that "straight forward" vs "easy"

Thank you so much Graham, I will give it a try as you have indicated 
and will alsodownload anamonitor300.r

Good luck with this stuff .. it's pretty tedious navigating thru 
large objects like this ...

>> do http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altxml.r
connecting to: www.ross-gill.com
Script: "AltXML" (7-Jun-2009)
>> all-stats: load-xml/dom your-xml-data 
>> player: stats/get-by-id "b.11965"                        
>> his-stats: first player/get-by-tag <stats-baseball-offensive>
>> his-stats/get #hits                                          
== "1"


>> remove-each code codes: all-stats/get-by-tag <sports-content-code> 
["league" <> code/get #code-type]
== [make object! [
        name: <sports-content-code>
        space: none
        value: [
            #code-type "league" 
      ...
>> foreach code codes [probe code/get #code-name]
Major ^/      League Baseball
== "Major ^/      League Baseball"

How is your parser getting on these days?

Still seems to work as advertised - good for extraction; still missing 
the 'flatten function. Not much time for development in the schema 
direction though : (

I'm guessing that it should be "all-stats/get-by-id" and not "stats/get-by-id"

Chris, do you documentation yet for your parser?

Doesn't go into much detail, but: http://www.ross-gill.com/page/XML+and+REBOL

Given some xml like this which is a list of documents http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#ListDocs

how would your parser extract the <gd:resourceid> and text associated 
with these tags?

again .. how would you use your parser to exxtract the <gd:resourceid> 
tags and associated text?

>> google-xml: load-xml/dom clipboard:// ; copied from page
>> entries: google-xml/get-by-tag <entry>
== [make object! [
        name: <entry>
        space: none
        value: [
            #etag {"BxAUSh5RAyp7ImBq"} 
            <...
>> foreach entry entries [probe entry/get <resourceId>]
spreadsheet:key
== "spreadsheet:key"

Note that while it appears namespaces have been stripped, they are 
in fact still there:

>> entry: first entries                   
>> id: first entry/get-by-tag <resourceId>             
>> id/space                               
== <gd>

So, looks feasible to use your parser to create an api for googledocs 
...

There's a rebzip script which has recently been updated on rebol.org 
which I guess can be used to open up docx

Sounds like too much overhead ... unzip the docx, make changes to 
the xml portion and then rezip.

I will need a xml parser .. I was thinkinf something fast and quick 
like sax style .. I found this one http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml-parse.r
but by looking of it it seems to offer a lot of things I don't need. 
Has anyone used it for "serrious" xml parsing with it. I am thinking 
of making my own simple minimal event based xml parser.

Yes, I have used it to parse large XML files

You can turn the xml file into a rebol object with it

I imagine that is too costly .. I preferr the callback model to just 
extract the relevant data out

Mine is a desktop application .. your needs for a web service differ 
..

yes, I get a big xml made by "official" BLOATED standard for invoices 
.. I want to parse it as quick as possible and that's all

Janko,
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebxml/rebxml-spec.html
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=xml2rebxml.r
http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebxml2xml.r

thanks Geomol, I will study  the links .. xml2rebxml seems short 
which is nice, but I haven't yet figured out what exactly rebxml 
is .. I am reading the first link you gave me

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to use a C based XML parser, construct 
a Rebol data-structure/string and return that to Rebol?

Janko, rebxml is a rebol version of xml. It can do the same things, 
but without the bad implementation, xml suffers from. The idea behind 
xml is ok, it's just not implemented well. Much of that is solved 
with the rebxml format.

I believe Maarten has done a SAX style parser.  I've used parse-xml 
in the past, sometimes post-processing the output to a different 
REBOL form, but my needs were simple.


Janko, have you tested any of the existing soluitions, with test 
input on target hardware, and found them to be too slow? If so, what 
were the results, and how fast do you need it to be?

SAX pull parsing would work well with the port model.

Robert: it's a good idea but not for my case. I don't want the data 
strucure from whole xml , I want to stream it through parser and 
collect out the data. 

Geomol: I will look at it but probably not what I want in this particular 
case for the reason above

Gregg: I haven't tested any yet, I googled and found that xml-parse.r 
above , which has sax style of work but seems huge. I only care to 
support the simplified subset of xml, xml with all the variants is 
a total bloat so I believe it can be that complex (and it doesn't 
support 100% of it also).  Thats why I am considering writing a simple 
sax liek parser, I wrote it in c once and it was small (but it parsed 
even smaller subset of xml)