XML to haskell data

[Malcolm Wallace]

> Has anyone done any XML parsing into haskell data structures? I'd
> like to do some of this and don't like reduplicating effort.

The HaXml package has a tool `DtdToHaskell' that automatically converts
an XML DTD into a set of Haskell datatypes, together with the necessary
instances of an `Xml2Haskell' class, which provides methods to read and
write the Haskell data from/to an XML document.  The Haskell datatypes
you get might not necessarily be as clean as you would write by hand,
but they are at least a faithful encoding of the DTD.

HaXml also includes a general XML parser and ugly-printer.
Joe English's `hxml' package has a more space-efficient parser,
which can interface nicely to the rest of HaXml.

HaXml is integrated as part of the ghc hslibs collection, or can be
downloaded separately from
    http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/HaXml/

Hxml is available from
    http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/hxml/

Regards,
    Malcolm