(or should I just go with Java's ones)

# getting-started

[bjonnh]

(or should I just go with Java's ones)

[Shawn]

when you say Kotlin-aware, do you mean, like, conversion of XML entities into, say, data classes?

[bjonnh]

yes

[bjonnh]

I can also use things with paths and so on

[Shawn]

Jackson has a drop-in Kotlin module and does just fine with XML for the most part

[bjonnh]

I have the dtd too if that may help: https://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/ncbi/pubmed/out/pubmed_190101.dtd

[bjonnh]

oh wow jackson does a lot of other formats too

[Shawn]

yep!

[Shawn]

if you’re looking for kotlin codegen using the DTD I think you may be out of luck, however 😕

[Shawn]

you can still generate pojos using JAXB or XmlBeans but I understand if you don’t consider that good enough

[bjonnh]

so I may have to create the dataclass myself?

[Shawn]

unfortunately, yes

[bjonnh]

or write a kotlin code gen from the DTD

[Shawn]

right

[bjonnh]

sounds painful 😄

[Shawn]

I would personally agree, yeah

[Shawn]

Unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much work on this by kotlin library authors, probably since most folks consider XML terribly old hat

[bjonnh]

soon it will be JSON 😉

[bjonnh]

have you tried to parse XML with Jackson that may have different root elements (according to the DTD)?

[bjonnh]

I guess I can't use jackson… because I have mixed content…