Re: Parsing SVG with XML parser

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * In message <NOE...@st...>
> * On the subject of "Parsing SVG with XML parser"
> * Sent on Sun, 1 Oct 2000 03:44:15 -0700
> * Honorable "Jonathan Siegel" <jon...@st...> writes:
>
> I am interested in using the CLOCC CLLIB XML parser to parse an SVG
> file, but have not been able to find any documentation on the

The parser reads a file and returns a list of XML-OBJ structs.

> parser. I've attempted to just run the XML parser on the SVG file, and
> get this error:
> 
> USER(34): (cllib:xml-read-from-file "~/testbox.svg")
> Error: File #p"/home/jonathan/testbox.svg" does not exist.
>  ->(OPEN "~/testbox.svg" :DIRECTION ...)
>    (ORG.CONS.CLOCC/SDS/CLLIB:XML-READ-FROM-FILE "~/testbox.svg")

apparently, we cannot find the file.
is it there? is it readable? what does `probe-file' say?

> Anyone have any suggestions on how to get this to work?

1. "~" is a shell shortcut.  while ACL, apparently, understands it, most
   other lisps I know of don't, so you might be better off using
   explicit things like
      (merge-pathnames "test.svg" (user-homedir-pathname))

2. please do not hesitate to ask questions on the list.

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