Re: [q-lang-users] Avoiding trailing () in CGIs

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Tim Haynes wrote:
> Well, I'm not convinced I know that much about it either, but I'd be happy
> to pass on the scripts & sablotron glue I've got so far - where would you
> like them?

Yes, I'd like to take a look at that! Just send me a tarball by email, 
if you like.

> - the basic gist is that, given a database query result-set via
> ODBC, I convert this
>       [(colname1,colname2), (row1col1, row1val1)...]
> into XML with a recursive function whose first parameter is a list of
> node-names for different depths (["xml","row","field"], typically).

For simple XML this scheme seems to be perfectly adequate, so why make 
it any more complicated?

> However, this is not clever in the slightest - it's all done with strings
> when ideally it should be a type in its own right with an appropriate index
> - but my Q is not so advanced[0] that I'd know how to implement such a
> thing. [...]

If all you need is a kind of indexed container, Q's standard library 
already has both ordered and hashed dictionaries (sections 11.5.5/6 in 
the manual). Crafting your own data types is also pretty straightforward 
(chapter 8 of the manual). If you need more info on this, don't hesitate 
to ask!

> [0] I've only been using it on & off since I saw the 5.3 announcement on
> freshmeat - hi folks!

Welcome to the list. :)

Albert

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