The extensible Address Language (xAL) is a unified hierarchical address format developed by the OASIS technical committee using xml. This scalaxal library represents addresses, as specified by the standard, as scala objects. It also provides for reading addresses in xml format into scalaxal objects, and writing scalaxal objects to xml format.

1. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards OASIS

2. Extensible Address Language (xAL) Standard Description Document for W3C DTD/Schema Version 2.0

The scalaxal library is in 2 major parts:

1. package com.scalaxal.xAL, the set of xAL classes

2. package com.scalaxal.io, the reading and writing of xAL from/to xml

See the OASIS xAL Standard v2.0

1. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/ciq.html

2. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/ciq/download.html

Also the OASIS xAL Standard v2.0 in pdf is included here in the doc directory.

Add the following dependency to build.sbt:

libraryDependencies += "com.github.workingDog" %% "scalaxal" % "1.2"

To compile and generate a jar file from the source:

sbt package

The jar file (scalaxal_2.12-1.3-SNAPSHOT.jar) will be in the "./target/scala-2.12" directory.

scalaxal depends on the standard Scala XML library

object ReadWriteExample1 {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
   val xal = new XalFileReader().getXalFromFile("./xal-files/XAL.XML")
   if (xal.isDefined) {
     val writer = new XalPrintWriter()
     writer.write(xal, new PrettyPrinter(80, 3))
     writer.close()
   }
 }
}

Stable

Tested on the XAL.XML and XAL_AU.XML example files from OASIS, included here in the xal-files directory.