[nfbcs] xml file

[Bryan Schulz]

hi,

thanks  much, didn't know the stream could play xml and will try it this 
weekend.
Bryan Schulz


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] xml file


> Also, the stream will play xml files as well.  They do go in the
> $VRText folder.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 09:48:33PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> Typically in xml documents, < and > and a few other symbols are
>> encoded with an ampersand, followed by some characters, followed by a
>> semicolon.  When I need to convert these to there values, I will first
>> run my regexp to remove the html tags, and then do a simple search and
>> replace for these special entities.
>>
>> Hopefully, you can get your device to work with the xml directly, as
>> this is a very poor method of converting XML to plain text.  Sure,
>> you'll be able to read just the text without the XML tags, as you
>> requested, but you'll lose all of the structural data.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/18/13, Bryan Schulz <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > it's not that simple, how would you remove the xml tags and still leave 
>> > <,
>> >  >, ect involved in css code?
>> > Bryan Schulz
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Aaron Cannon" <cannona at fireantproductions.com>
>> > To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 9:16 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [nfbcs] xml file
>> >
>> >
>> >> Hi.
>> >>
>> >> If your editor supports global search and replace with a regular
>> >> expression, which many do, though others do not, there should be no 
>> >> need
>> >> to go line by line through the file.
>> >>
>> >> Good luck and let me know if you need help with writing a suitable 
>> >> regular
>> >>
>> >> expression.
>> >>
>> >> Aaron
>> >>
>> >> --
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 18, 2013, at 8:37 PM, "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> hi,
>> >>>
>> >>> already tried it,
>> >>> not going line by line thru a whole e-book.
>> >>> how does the first gen victor stream do with pdf or epub?
>> >>> Bryan Schulz
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Cannon"
>> >>> <cannona at fireantproductions.com>
>> >>> To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>> >>> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:22 PM
>> >>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] xml file
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Sometimes, if you open an XML file in Internet explorer, it will do 
>> >>>> its
>> >>>>
>> >>>> best to display it. You might try that. Otherwise, you could clean 
>> >>>> it up
>> >>>>
>> >>>> quite easily with a simple regular expression, assuming that you 
>> >>>> have an
>> >>>>
>> >>>> editor that supports them.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Aaron
>> >>>>
>> >>>> --
>> >>>> This message was sent from a mobile device
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 7:48 PM, "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
>> >>>> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> hi,
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> is there an easy way to view xml files without the coding tags so 
>> >>>>> just
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> the text can be read?
>> >>>>> Bryan Schulz
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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