[libvirt] [PATCH V2 3/4] Parse lists of values

[Stefan Berger]

On 10/24/2011 09:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 09:08:44AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> This patch introduces a parser for parsing lists of values as for example
>> found in the XML here:
>>
>>          <parameter name='TEST' value='[10.1.2.3,10.2.3.4, 10.1.1.1]'/>
>>
>> The list of values is then stored in the newly introduced data type
>> virNWFilterVarValue.
> This kind of thing is frowned up with XML, because now everything that
> uses the XML doc has todo special parsing. eg, you can't just use a
> XPath query to get a list of IP values as a nodeset, instead you have
> to query for a node and then post-process it. Why not just support
>
>           <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.2.3'/>
>           <parameter name='TEST' value='10.2.3.4'/>
>           <parameter name='TEST' value='10.1.1.1'/>
>
Ok, I'll modify it to support this.

    Stefan
> Regards,
> Daniel