[Haskell-cafe] Stuck on HXT basics

[Michael Snoyman]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Pēteris Paikens <peterisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm quite stuck on getting HXT working to do my xml parsing, can you
> help me to get started?
> Even in http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/HXT#Getting_started:_Hello_world_examples
> the basic filter example that's given there in section 6:
>
> import Text.XML.HXT.Core
> import Text.XML.HXT.DOM.XmlTreeFilter
> selectAllText   :: ArrowXml a => a XmlTree XmlTree
> selectAllText  = deep isXText
>
> fails with the following error message. What could I be doing wrong?
>
>    Couldn't match expected type `Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree XNode'
>                with actual type `hxt-8.5.4:Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree
>                                    hxt-8.5.4:Text.XML.HXT.DOM.TypeDefs.XNode'
>    Expected type: a (Data.Tree.NTree.TypeDefs.NTree XNode) XmlTree
>      Actual type: Text.XML.HXT.DOM.XmlTreeTypes.XmlFilter
>    In the first argument of `deep', namely `isXText'
>    In the expression: deep isXText
>
>
> On the other hand, perhaps you can suggest something other than HXT -
> my needs would be taking "heavy" XML's (a lot of little-neccessary
> structure, but correctly validated), extracting text tokens from it
> and outputting them with some light tagsoup annotation.
>
> Regards,
> Peteris
>
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You could try xml-conduit[1] instead. I use it extensively at work.
There's an appendix in the Yesod book[2] covering basic usage.

Michael

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xml-conduit
[2] http://www.yesodweb.com/book/xml-enumerator