good morning!

You might very well think that, but you have to work with MongoDB this morning...

The MongoDB query "language" makes you wish a language specified by a commitee.

haha, I am sometimes tempted to use mongodb for a quick project set up but then I remember that I regret the choice so often…

actually it is quite satisfying once you (think you) start understanding the aggregation pipeline before you hit the next unsolvable problem

The aggregation pipeline is a disappointment that just keeps on giving.

Not only does it only solve 80% of your problem, it does it slowly as well.

next up: parsing xml in clojure. what am I even doing

https://github.com/clojure/data.xml ?

thanks

I think i just used clojure.xml, looks sufficient

morning

Good morning!

Morning

mornin

note that if you're generating xml with clojure that clojure.xml does not properly escape text nodes, so it's really easy to generate invalid xml

huge bug IMO

ugh interesting, thanks!

fortunately I’m just parsing a xml report

btw. is there a library to easily traverse an xml? don’t know if xpath is the most convenient way already

There is the xml zipper thingy?

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.zip/xml-zip

Enlive might also be interesting

Gives you css like selectors

awesome thank you all!

I’m still in the search of a serious personal project, where I can apply clojure and learn it in production 😅

xml-zip makes it a little less painful. Also I've used this function to extract maps a bit better:

(defn extract-map [xml-map]
  (into {} (->> xml-map
                (map (fn [xml-tag]
                       [(csk/->kebab-case-keyword (name (:tag xml-tag)))
                        (let [c (:content xml-tag)]
                          (if (every? xml/element? c)
                            (extract-map c)
                            (first c)))])))))

(i really don't care for those prefixes 😄 )

can’t be bad if if it makes use of kebab!

I’m a fan of Specter for walking XML files. Been a long while since I used it though. https://github.com/MastodonC/kixi.hecuba.dcc.measurements/tree/master/src/kixi/hecuba/dcc/measurements

If you need XML namespace support, test it first. Only few Clojure XML libraries support this (highly useful) feature.