Love2D and LuaXML

[Leon]

Hey Guys,

New to Love2d and LUA, but things are going swimingly. Currently I am trying to work how I can use LuaXML with Love2D as attempts to use it are throwing errors up in Love.

Normally you would add the LuaXML.lua file and LuaXML_lib to your project folder and then just load it via require 'luaXML' but everytime I do this it say it is missing LuaXML, LuaXML_lib and then a bunch of other stuff.

Is LuaXML meant to be installed somewhere? Or is something else wrong.

For those who don't know what LuaXML is see here.

[miko]

Hey Guys,

New to Love2d and LUA, but things are going swimingly. Currently I am trying to work how I can use LuaXML with Love2D as attempts to use it are throwing errors up in Love.

What errors exactly?
Anyways, I would recommend plain lua XML parser, because when you use binary compiled module, your program is no longer multiplatform, and you risk the binary compatibility issue (it depends on which compiler was used to compile love2d and *.dll).

[kikito]

Hi Leon,

Why do you need to parse XML in the first place?

[Leon]

Hi Leon,

Why do you need to parse XML in the first place?

Storing data in a easily editable file, for the purpose of future modifications. Thh idea is to make it so I could easily put together new spells through the use of XML files which are then read by the parser and put it in a LUA Table.

Heres a image of the error I get:

[slime]

Why not use pure Lua files which just have a table inside them, and then loadstring or love.filesystem.load that?

[nevon]

Hi Leon,

Why do you need to parse XML in the first place?

Storing data in a easily editable file, for the purpose of future modifications. Thh idea is to make it so I could easily put together new spells through the use of XML files which are then read by the parser and put it in a LUA Table.

Lua is excellent for that. Just store the information as Lua tables.

[Leon]

Why not use pure Lua files which just have a table inside them, and then loadstring or love.filesystem.load that?

Because I want end users to be able to stuff just as easy as me. Not everyone knows how to use Lua while a XML table is easy to just look at and edit.

[slime]

Personally I find

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{
	name = "bolt",
	type = "Energy",
	damage = 50,
	speed = 800,
	drain = 8,
	timeout = 1,
	mass = 0.1,
	cooldown = 0.2,
	ammo = false,
	autoaim = false,
	color = {64, 192, 255},
}

much, much easier to read than an XML file.

[Leon]

Personally I find

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{
	name = "bolt",
	type = "Energy",
	damage = 50,
	speed = 800,
	drain = 8,
	timeout = 1,
	mass = 0.1,
	cooldown = 0.2,
	ammo = false,
	autoaim = false,
	color = {64, 192, 255},
}

much, much easier to read than an XML file.

Editing XML files in EXCEL or the open office alternative is easy and nice to do. I know I can do it with LUA, I want to do it with XML. Also I want to do it the other way around as-well, store LUA tables in a XML file.

[slime]

As others have mentioned, you should probably use a pure Lua solution if you really want XML parsing. http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaXml

Also, Lua is not an acronym. It's Lua, not LUA.
I used JAVASCRIPT and PYTHON the other day, but I like the LUA language more.