[IMC-Tech] Cities list

[john duda]

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i know dada uses cities.xml, but a more useful way of presenting this
data would probably be nice.

rather than invent our own format for the list(wow that plist stuff is
ugly!) maybe there's an exiting one(opml?) that could be used, so that
off the shelf tools would work with it...

- -john






On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 11:02:17PM +0000, ekes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Asking to get flamed here but does anyone really use the cities.xml is
> it worth the parsing?
> 
> If so is there a php parser to save me the effort... tbh I am headed for
> a preg on the html or maybe the xml as quicker (and lower overhead).
> 
> The format is plist an apple thing. A quick scan brings up no useful
> general parsers in php or perl (a standard xml parse has to load in
> layers of useless stuff, and then deal with <key> <string> at the same
> level). Reinventing the xml format is cool if it would be quicker than
> rewriting the parsing of it.
> 
> What was wrong with inventing our own xml format that any plain parser
> would see the heirachy of?
> 
> ekes
> 
> for those that haven't seen it before (like me till recently):
> 
> <plist version="1.0">
>   <dict>
>     <key>NULL</key>
>     <array>
>       <dict>
>         <key>NULL</key>	
> 	<array>
>           <dict>
>             <key>www.indymedia.org</key>
>             <string>http://www.indymedia.org/</string>
>           </dict>
>         </array>
> 
>         <key>africa</key>
> 	<array>
> 	  <dict>
>             <key>Ambazonia</key>
>             <string>http://ambazonia.indymedia.org/</string>
>             <key>Canarias</key>
>             <string>http://canarias.indymedia.org</string>
>             <key>estrecho / madiaq</key>
>             <string>http://estrecho.indymedia.org</string>
>             <key>Kenya</key>
>             <string>http://kenya.indymedia.org/</string>
>             <key>Nigeria</key>
>             <string>http://nigeria.indymedia.org/</string>
>             <key>South Africa</key>
>             <string>http://southafrica.indymedia.org/</string>
>          </dict>
>        </array>
> ....
> 



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