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Diffstat (limited to 'tex/context/base/util-tab.lua')
| -rw-r--r-- | tex/context/base/util-tab.lua | 24 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tex/context/base/util-tab.lua b/tex/context/base/util-tab.lua index ea440e736..f8422c626 100644 --- a/tex/context/base/util-tab.lua +++ b/tex/context/base/util-tab.lua @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ local tables = utilities.tables local format, gmatch = string.format, string.gmatch local concat, insert, remove = table.concat, table.insert, table.remove -local setmetatable = setmetatable +local setmetatable, tonumber, tostring = setmetatable, tonumber, tostring function tables.definetable(target) -- defines undefined tables local composed, t, n = nil, { }, 0 @@ -82,3 +82,25 @@ local _empty_table_ = { __index = function(t,k) return "" end } function table.setemptymetatable(t) setmetatable(t,_empty_table_) end + +-- experimental + +local function toxml(t,d,result) + for k, v in table.sortedpairs(t) do + if type(v) == "table" then + result[#result+1] = format("%s<%s>",d,k) + toxml(v,d.." ",result) + result[#result+1] = format("%s</%s>",d,k) + elseif tonumber(k) then + result[#result+1] = format("%s<entry n='%s'>%s</entry>",d,k,v,k) + else + result[#result+1] = format("%s<%s>%s</%s>",d,k,tostring(v),k) + end + end +end + +function table.toxml(t,name) + local result = { "<?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes' ?>" } + toxml( { [name or "root"] = t }, "", result) + return concat(result,"\n") +end |