An introduction to Xtract

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Xtract is a small Scala library that turns XML into Scala objects and is proven by importing IDML (InDesign) into Lucidpress JSON. It provides an XPath-like path type, a composable XMLReader that returns ParsedResult values of success / failure / partial success, built-in readers for Int/Boolean/Option/Seq, implicit companion-object lookup, recover/defaults, lazy recursion, and is published on GitHub and Maven Central with plans to port combinators to Cats.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:38Background
3. 1:24First Attempt
4. 2:02There are a few problems
5. 3:45The pieces of Xtract
6. 6:56ParseResult
7. 7:59XmlReader
8. 8:57Sample XML
9. 18:26PartialParseSuccess
10. 19:02The Future
11. 19:42References

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