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XML

Process an XML document

Given the XML Document:

<shopping>
  <item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
  <item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
</shopping>

Print out the total cost of the items, e.g. $14.50
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clojure
(println (format "Total cost of items are $%#.2f"
(->> (xml-seq (parse *xml-input-stream*))
(filter #(= :item (:tag %))) ; Remove all but the item tags
(map :attrs) ; Keep the attributes
(map (fn [e] (str "(* " (:quantity e) " " (:price e) ")"))) ; Get the total price as a sexp
(map read-string) ; "(* quantity price)" -> (* quantity price)
(map eval) ; (* quantity price) -> quantity*price
(apply +)))) ; Sum all elements
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cpp rapidxml
char input[] =
"<shopping>"
" <item name=\"bread\" quantity=\"3\" price=\"2.50\"/>"
" <item name=\"milk\" quantity=\"2\" price=\"3.50\"/>"
"</shopping>";

xml_document<> doc;
doc.parse<0>(input);
xml_node<> *shopping = doc.first_node();

float total_price = 0;
for (xml_node<> *item = shopping->first_node(); item != NULL; item = item->next_sibling())
{
float item_sum = 0;
float val;

if (string(item->name()) != "item")
continue;

for (xml_attribute<> *attr = item->first_attribute(); attr != NULL; attr = attr->next_attribute())
{
string name(attr->name());
if (name == "quantity" || name == "price")
{
stringstream v(attr->value());
v >> val;
if (item_sum)
item_sum *= val;
else
item_sum = val;
}
}
total_price += item_sum;
}

cout.setf(ios::fixed, ios::floatfield);
cout << "Total price is $" << setprecision(2) << total_price << endl;
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erlang
-include_lib("xmerl/include/xmerl.hrl").
-export([get_total/1]).

get_total(ShoppingList) ->
{XmlElt, _} = xmerl_scan:string(ShoppingList),
Items = xmerl_xpath:string("/shopping/item", XmlElt),
Total = lists:foldl(fun(Item, Tot) ->
[#xmlAttribute{value = PriceString}] = xmerl_xpath:string("/item/@price", Item),
{Price, _} = string:to_float(PriceString),
[#xmlAttribute{value = QuantityString}] = xmerl_xpath:string("/item/@quantity", Item),
{Quantity, _} = string:to_integer(QuantityString),
Tot + Price*Quantity
end,
0, Items),
io:format("$~.2f~n", [Total]).
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fantom
sum := 0.0
root := XParser(File(`shop.xml`).in).parseDoc.root
if (root.name == "shopping")
{
root.elems.each
{
if (it.name == "item")
{
quantity := Int.fromStr(it.get("quantity"))
price := Decimal.fromStr(it.get("price"))
sum += quantity * price;
}
}
}
echo("\$$sum")
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fsharp F# 2.0 Interactive build 4.0.30319.1
#r @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.5\System.Xml.Linq.dll"

open System
open System.Xml.Linq
//XElement Helper
let xname sname = XName.Get sname

let xmlsnippet =
let snippet = new XElement(xname "shopping")
//create bread
let bread = new XElement(xname "item")
bread.SetAttributeValue(xname "name","bread")
bread.SetAttributeValue(xname "quantity",3)
bread.SetAttributeValue(xname "price",2.50)
//add bread to snippet
snippet.Add(bread)
//create milk
let milk = new XElement(xname "item")
milk.SetAttributeValue(xname "name","milk")
milk.SetAttributeValue(xname "quantity",2)
milk.SetAttributeValue(xname "price",3.50)
//add milk to snippet
snippet.Add(milk)
snippet

let totalprice (xe: XElement) =
xe.Descendants(xname "item")
|> Seq.map(fun i -> Double.Parse(i.Attribute(xname "price").Value))
|> Seq.fold(fun acc x -> acc + x) 0.0


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fsharp
let xname sname = XName.Get sname
let xattr (elem: XElement) sname = elem.Attribute(xname sname).Value
let xml = XDocument.Load("xml.txt")

let shoppingCost =
xml.Descendants(xname "item")
|> Seq.map (fun i -> Double.Parse(xattr i "quantity"), Double.Parse(xattr i "price"))
|> Seq.sumBy (fun (quantity, price) -> quantity * price)
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fsharp
// Alternative solution that uses XML Navigation, and XPath expressions to ensure that
// the items have the required attributes
let xname sname = XName.Get sname
let xattr (elem: XElement) sname = elem.Attribute(xname sname).Value

let navigator = XPathDocument("xml.txt").CreateNavigator()
let path = XPathExpression.Compile("/shopping/item[@price][@quantity]")
let names = XmlNamespaceManager(navigator.NameTable)
path.SetContext(names)
let shoppingCost =
match path.ReturnType with
| XPathResultType.NodeSet ->
navigator.Select(path)
|> Seq.cast
|> Seq.map (fun (i: XPathNavigator) ->
if i.IsNode then
let elem = XElement.Parse(i.OuterXml)
Double.Parse(xattr elem "quantity"), Double.Parse(xattr elem "price")
else
failwith "Error in expression, expecting to see a node"
)
|> Seq.sumBy (fun (quantity, price) -> quantity * price)
| _ -> failwith "Error in expression, expecting to see a node set"
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groovy
printf '$%.2f\n', new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml).item.collect{
it.@quantity.toInteger() * it.@price.toFloat()
}.sum()
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haskell
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import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec
import Control.Monad
import System ( getArgs )

data Item = Item { name :: String,
quantity :: Int,
price :: Int }
deriving Show

type Basket = [Item]

item :: Parser Item
item = do string "<item name=\""
name <- manyTill letter (char '\"')
string " quantity=\""
quantity <- liftM read $ many digit
string "\" price=\""
dollars <- liftM read $ many digit
cents <- option 0 (char '.' >> (liftM read $ many digit))
string "\"/>"
return $ Item name quantity (100 * dollars + cents)

basket :: Parser Basket
basket = do string "<shopping>"
items <- manyTill item (try $ string "</shopping>")
return items

parseBasket :: String -> Basket
parseBasket input = case parse basket "Shopping Basket" input of
Left _ -> []
Right val -> val

main = do args <- getArgs
putStrLn $ show . (/100) . fromIntegral . sum . map (\(Item _ q p) -> q * p) . parseBasket $ head args
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haskell
import Text.XML.HXT.Core
import Text.Printf

main :: IO ()
main = do
prices <- runX (process "basket.xml")
printf "$%.2f\n" $ sum prices

process :: FilePath -> IOSArrow XmlTree Double
process filename =
readDocument [withValidate no] filename >>>
getChildren >>>
isElem >>> hasName "shopping" >>>
getChildren >>>
isElem >>> hasName "item" >>>
getQuantity &&& getPrice >>>
arr (uncurry (*))

getQuantity :: IOSArrow XmlTree Double
getQuantity =
getAttrl >>> hasName "quantity" >>> getChildren >>>
getText >>> arr read

getPrice :: IOSArrow XmlTree Double
getPrice =
getAttrl >>> hasName "price" >>> getChildren >>>
getText >>> arr read
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ocaml
let () =
let xml = Xml.parse_file "shopping.xml" in
let res =
Xml.fold (fun total xml ->
match xml with
| Xml.Element ("item", attrs, _) ->
let quantity = float_of_string (List.assoc "quantity" attrs)
and price = float_of_string (List.assoc "price" attrs) in
total +. (quantity *. price)
| _ -> total
) 0.0 xml
in
Printf.printf "Total cost of the items: %g\n" res
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python
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
document = parseString(
"""<shopping>
<item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
<item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
</shopping>""").documentElement
total = sum([float(item.getAttribute('price')) *
int(item.getAttribute('quantity'))
for item in document.getElementsByTagName('item')])
print '$%.2f' % total
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ruby
#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# needed to parse xml
require 'rexml/document'

# grab the file
file = File.new('shop.xml')

# load it as an xml document
doc = REXML::Document.new(file)

# initialize the total to 0 as a float
total = 0.0

# cycle through the items
doc.elements.each('shopping/item') do |item|

# add the price to the total
total += item.attributes['price'].to_f
end

# round the total to the nearest 0.01
total = (total*100.0).round/100.0

# pad the output with the proper number of trailing 0's
printf "$%.2f\n", total
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scala
val data = <shopping>
<item name="bread" quantity="3" price="2.50"/>
<item name="milk" quantity="2" price="3.50"/>
</shopping>

val res = for (
item <- data \ "item" ;
price = (item \ "@price").text.toDouble ;
qty = (item \ "@quantity").text.toInt)
yield (price * qty)

printf("$%.2f\n", res.sum)

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