HXTAliases.hs

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-- |
-- Module      :  Language.XPath.HXTAliases
-- Copyright   :  (c) 2011 University of Minho
-- License     :  BSD3
--
-- Maintainer  :  hpacheco@di.uminho.pt
-- Stability   :  experimental
-- Portability :  non-portable
--
-- Multifocal:
-- Bidirectional Two-level Transformation of XML Schemas
-- 
-- Aliases for HXT library.
--
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module Language.XPath.HXTAliases where

import qualified Text.XML.HXT.XPath as HXT
import Text.XML.HXT.XPath.XPathDataTypes
import Text.XML.HXT.Parser.XmlCharParser( withNormNewline )
import Text.ParserCombinators.Parsec    ( runParser )
import Text.XML.HXT.XPath.XPathToString
import Text.XML.HXT.DOM.QualifiedName


type XPath = Expr

parseXPath :: String -> Maybe XPath
parseXPath path = case runParser HXT.parseXPath (withNormNewline []) "" path of
	Left err -> Nothing
	Right xp -> Just xp