On page 76 of the WATER book, the example reads: <set fixed_column_data= <string> Mike Plusch Wellesley MA Christopher Fry Lexington MA </string> /> ...
I was able to get a workable example using the following code. The variable 'counter' is defined in the scope of the <do repeat=nn /> loop in the example...
... That worked. Thanks so much, Merrick. Since I'm still trying to understand all of this, can I clarify one piece? <do repeat=rest.<length /> > Is that a...
... I see. So making it a pattern (and using \\ in some cases) enables the STEAM IDE to recognize separators? How do I know which separators need the \\ and...
... Yes. 'rest' is a special parameter that represents a vector (or list) of unnamed parameters that follow all of the named parameters in a parameter list....
So here's what I want to do in general. I want to read in an XML file and have Water treat it as an object. I then want to manipulate the values of this...
I poked around and found the <normalize /> method that let me access the field variables in a friendly way. To get the output in the same format, you could...
Hello All, I am trying to preserve the format of a HTML table when converted in to plain text.I am using Steam IDE to get the look and feel of the grid...
Hello All, I have been trying to preserve the grid structure of a HTML table when written to a .txt file using Water. The problem I am getting is that I don't...
oops..Here is the o/p I was getting.. " Test"" 599999"" 02481"" Vijaya Jonnalagadda"" 599"" 560945" where as I would like to see two separate rows as the table...
Greetings, I've tried a few of the examples from the Water web site, and I have an idea of how these work, but would like to know if it's possible to host...
Hello All, Has anyone ever tried writting a HTML file to a .txt file using Water? Attached is a piece of code I am trying with.For the sample table ... Apples...
Any Water "programs" you write can be turned into a server application with just a few added lines of code in the Steam IDE. This is one of the great things...
I have a similar problem converting a table to text. I get an error when I apply the <to_objects/> proprty in this line <set strTable = a_table.<get_with_value...
Hello! I am trying to pull the text out of all the nodes that come under the body tag..In doing this as follows, <set a_Table= <file "C:/a_table.htm"...
Hello! Here is some code that walks through some HTML and pulls out just the text in each element. I'm using <execute /> instead of <to_objects />. _Merrick ...
... When you use <... returns='all' /> the return type is a vector of <body /> elements; a vector does not have a <to_objects /> method. It looks like you...
Hello! Below is some code that wraps text within a specified text width. This code would be good to make the text portions of an HTML file wrap within...
I noticed the spec. for conciseURI on the www.conciseXML.org website and I wonder will ConciseURI will be supported in Water/Steam 4.0? Does anyone know? ...
Thanks Merrick, I tried your program, executed it within the Steam IDE, and then accessed it locally from the same machine by using 'http://localhost:8181/'. ...
ConciseURI won't be in 4.0, but could be in 4.1 if there is demand. By the way, ConciseURI is described here: http://www.concisexml.org/ConciseURI.html ...
... Ooo. Right. This took me a while to get a handle on when I first started to do web programming. For me it was CGI scripts in Perl. To do this, you have to...
So I want to call a SOAP method. As best I can figure I need to create a uri as such: <uri method="post" Accept="*/*" content_type="application/soap+xml" ...
BostonWater User Group: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 7:00pm Cambridge, Massachusetts near MIT Directions and details at: http://www.bostonwater.org/ Modeling and...
Greetings, I just read through Jan Miller's note about SOAP, shortly after reading Chapter 13 in the Water book about Water Protocol and SOAP. From Jan's note,...
... In a message from last March, I showed how to connect through an ODBC connection. (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waterlanguage/message/270). To do this,...
Hello Merrick! I made use of the function you sent to the board earlier , shuck_the_object. Yet, I need to process various parts of the document and so I would...