[texworks] QT-script and XML?

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Jan 2010, at 10:46, Paul A Norman wrote:

> Dear Jonathan,
> 
> After Looking thorugh
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/ScriptingTeXworks and the
> reference links provided there, I was wanting to ask please what other
> modules might be added in with the QTScript in TeXWorks and
> specifically if an XML  object is available or  XML parsing is
> possible, or any form of XSL processing or XPATH?

Qt has an XML parser, so in principle I suppose we could try to make that available to script, but offhand I think it would take some fairly extensive work to design a suitable interface.... Do you have any ideas about what you'd expect this to look like from a script-language point of view?

> Or in the alternative is JSON from the ECMA specification implemented please?

I have no idea, but my guess is that it's unlikely. (Does the Qt documentation say anything about it?)

JK