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+-- Read an XML dataform and spit out a serialized Lua table of it
+
+local function from_stanza(stanza)
+ local layout = {
+ title = stanza:get_child_text("title");
+ instructions = stanza:get_child_text("instructions");
+ };
+ for tag in stanza:childtags("field") do
+ local field = {
+ name = tag.attr.var;
+ type = tag.attr.type;
+ label = tag.attr.label;
+ desc = tag:get_child_text("desc");
+ required = tag:get_child("required") and true or nil;
+ value = tag:get_child_text("value");
+ options = nil;
+ };
+
+ if field.type == "list-single" or field.type == "list-multi" then
+ local options = {};
+ for option in tag:childtags("option") do
+ options[#options+1] = { label = option.attr.label, value = option:get_child_text("value") };
+ end
+ field.options = options;
+ end
+
+ if field.type == "jid-multi" or field.type == "list-multi" or field.type == "text-multi" then
+ local values = {};
+ for value in tag:childtags("value") do
+ values[#values+1] = value:get_text();
+ end
+ if field.type == "text-multi" then
+ values = table.concat(values, "\n");
+ end
+ field.value = values;
+ end
+
+ if field.type == "boolean" then
+ field.value = field.value == "true" or field.value == "1";
+ end
+
+ layout[#layout+1] = field;
+
+ end
+ return layout;
+end
+
+print("dataforms.new " .. require "util.serialization".serialize(from_stanza(require "util.xml".parse(io.read("*a"))), { unquoted = true }))