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Originally Posted by hansel

Any interesting project in the pipeline? Depending on your needs, you might:

• expand http://asbradbury.org/projects/lua-xmlreader/
• do it with tolua++ (probably quite some work, since libxml2 is not a small simple C library
• use expat (basicaly sax, but easy to use to generate a DOM-like representation in Lua) see http://www.keplerproject.org/luaexpat/examples.html. Libexpat is installed on all Iliads, and a Lua binding is included in my LuaIliad package
• for simple things (if you only want to parse simple xml files), you might try my poor man's xml parser 'xl' which I use for Glade4Lua (see http://www.hpelbers.org/lua)

Have fun!

Thanx for the detailed reply.
I am trying and learning to expand lua-xmlreader. As to expat, I never understand the way it works. At least, I can understand the xmltree part of libxml2, so I choose libxml2.
What I want to do is to parse some xml file using docbook DTD, draw the contents (using different styles for different tags), and traverse the xmltree. Currently, I only find libxml2 provides me such functions.