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The development of the FORTRAN language, so beloved of scientists, pre-dates the development of XML. And it shows. FORTRAN is not a language that manipulates strings with ease, and this makes parsing XML decidely awkward. So unless you ''really'' have to use FORTRAN, you are probably better off with C/C++ (or something else more 'modern'), | The development of the FORTRAN language, so beloved of scientists, pre-dates the development of XML. And it shows. FORTRAN is not a language that manipulates strings with ease, and this makes parsing XML decidely awkward. So unless you ''really'' have to use FORTRAN, you are probably better off with C/C++ (or something else more 'modern'), see for example Daniel Veillard's LIBXML2 library at http://xmlsoft.org/ or Frank van den Berghen's parser at http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/xmlParser.html. | ||
If you have to use a dialect earlier than FORTRAN-90 (F90), then the chances are you will have to code your own parser. | If you have to use a dialect earlier than FORTRAN-90 (F90), then the chances are you will have to code your own parser. | ||
For later dialects, there are some SDK's available on the Web: | For later dialects, there are some SDK's available on the Web: | ||
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XML - by Mart Rentmeester at http://nn-online.org/code/xml/ | XML - by Mart Rentmeester at http://nn-online.org/code/xml/ | ||
Steve King[mailto:s.m.king@rl.ac.uk] (ISIS) has a VMS F77 routine that will read CanSAS XML v1.0 files. | |||
Revision as of 12:00, 19 May 2008
The development of the FORTRAN language, so beloved of scientists, pre-dates the development of XML. And it shows. FORTRAN is not a language that manipulates strings with ease, and this makes parsing XML decidely awkward. So unless you really have to use FORTRAN, you are probably better off with C/C++ (or something else more 'modern'), see for example Daniel Veillard's LIBXML2 library at http://xmlsoft.org/ or Frank van den Berghen's parser at http://www.applied-mathematics.net/tools/xmlParser.html.
If you have to use a dialect earlier than FORTRAN-90 (F90), then the chances are you will have to code your own parser.
For later dialects, there are some SDK's available on the Web:
For F90:
XMLPARSE - by Arjen Markus at http://xml-fortran.sourceforge.net/
FoX - by Toby White & others at http://uszla.me.uk/space/software/FoX/
For F95:
XML - by Mart Rentmeester at http://nn-online.org/code/xml/
Steve King[1] (ISIS) has a VMS F77 routine that will read CanSAS XML v1.0 files.
