# Copyright (C) 2002-2004 gregoire HUBERT.
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
# Author : gregoire HUBERT
#
# XML_node.objet
#
# This object is an XML node representation
#
# /- name (string)
# xml_node --- attributes (array)
# \- children (array) or value (string)
class xml_node {
var $name;
var $attributes = array();
var $children = array();
var $value = "";
function xml_node($name,$attributes,$children=array(),$value="") {
$this->name = $name;
if (is_array($attributes)) {
$this->attributes = $attributes;
}
$this->children = $children;
$this->value = $value;
}
}
# Copyright (C) 2003-2004 gregoire HUBERT.
#
# This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
# version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
#
# This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
# Lesser General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
# License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
# Author : gregoire HUBERT
#
# xml_tree class
#
# This object parses an XML stream and offers a tree composed by xml_nodes
#
class xml_tree {
var $xml_stream;
var $current_node;
var $root_node;
var $index;
var $value;
function xml_tree() {
$this->root_node = new xml_node("__ROOT_NODE",array());
$this->current_node = $this->root_node;
}
function add_tree($xml_stream) {
# Managing the parser
$this->xml_stream = $xml_stream;
$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING,0);
xml_parser_set_option($xml_parser,XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE,1);
if (!xml_parse_into_struct($xml_parser,$this->xml_stream,$this->value,$this->index)) {
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
die("XML Parse error");
}
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);
# Now, $this->value and $this->index are informed, we can use the get_node methode.
$tab_result = $this->get_node(0,count($this->value) - 1);
$this->root_node->children[] = $tab_result[0];
$this->current_node = $this->root_node;
}
function get_node($index_start,$index_stop) {
#echo " \n";
#echo "GET-NODE($index_start,$index_stop) \n";
# What we are going to return is an array of xml_nodes
$return_tab = array();
# depth is only here to check if everything is all right
$tab_node = $this->value[$index_start];
$depth = $tab_node["level"]-1;
# Now we have to be sure we do not forget a single node
for ($index = $index_start;$index <= $index_stop;$index++) {
#echo "\$index = $index ";
# get the current node
$tab_node = $this->value[$index];
# what type of node is it ?
switch($tab_node["type"]) {
case "complete" :
# Depth integrity check
if ($tab_node["level"] != $depth+1) {
die("ERREUR # contrainte d'intégrité au noeud complet $index, niveau $depth + 1 au lieu de ".$tab_node["level"]);
}
#echo "Noeud complet trouvé position $index TAG ".$tab_node["tag"]." \n";
# Easy one, no children to manage, only a value...
$return_tab[] = new xml_node($tab_node["tag"],$tab_node["attributes"],"",$tab_node["value"]);
break;
case "open" :
# Depth integrity check
if ($tab_node["level"] != $depth +1 ) {
die("ERREUR # contrainte d'intégrité au noeud ouvert $index, niveau $depth au lieu de ".$tab_node["level"]);
}
# Open tag, we re-use this methode to return its children
# Where is the correspondong close tag ?
$node_index = $this->index[$tab_node["tag"]];
$flipped_node_index = array_flip($node_index);
#echo "This ".$tab_node["tag"]." is at coords ".$flipped_node_index[$index]." ";
$i=1;
do {
$next_index = $node_index[$flipped_node_index[$index] + $i++];
$next_tag=$this->value[$next_index];
}
while ($next_tag["level"]!=$tab_node["level"]);
#echo "Ouverture de noeud détectée pos $index TAG ".$tab_node["tag"]." \n Parcours jusqu au $next_index \n";
# good, we can now instanciate our node
$return_tab[] = new xml_node($tab_node["tag"],$tab_node["attributes"],$this->get_node($index+1,$next_index),"");
# As we called the get_node methode, we are sure that nodes have been parsed to the corresponding close tag
$index = $next_index;
break;
case "close" :
# Depth integrity check
if ($tab_node["level"] != $depth ){
die("ERREUR # contrainte d'intégrité au noeud fermé $index, niveau $depth au lieu de ".$tab_node["level"]);
}
#echo "Fermeture de noeud detectée pos $index TAG ".$tab_node["tag"]."
\n";
# This ugly thing is useless because reaching a close tag means that $index==$index_stop but who knows ? =)
# it will be skipped soon
$index = $index_stop;
break;
default:
die("Erreur de type de TAG non déterminé :'".$tab_node["type"]."'");
}
}
# We are out ... returns the array with collected children...
return ($return_tab);
}
# this function browse the xml tree and set the current node to the selected node
function give_node($path) {
if ($path[0]=="/") {
$current_node=$this->root_node;
$path=substr($path,1);
#echo "ABSOLUTE PATH GIVEN=$path ";
}
else {
$current_node = $this->current_node;
}
#echo "PATH GIVEN=$path ";
$tab_path = split("/",$path);
foreach ($tab_path as $node_expr) {
#echo "STUDYING EXPR='$node_expr' ";
$node = $current_node;
$expr_tab = split("\?",$node_expr);
$node_name = $expr_tab[0];
$attr_tab = 0;
if (count($expr_tab)>1) {
##echo "TROUVE AU MOINS UNE CONDITION SUR LES ATTRIBUTS... ";
$attr_expr_tab=split(",",$expr_tab[1]);
$attr_tab=array();
foreach($attr_expr_tab as $attr_expr) {
$attr_split_expr=split("=",$attr_expr);
$attr_tab[$attr_split_expr[0]]=$attr_split_expr[1];
}
}
$last=0;
foreach ($node->children as $children) {
#echo "COMPARING WITH '$children->name' ";
if ($children->name == $node_name) {
##echo "TROUVE NOEUD CORRESPONDANT $node_name ";
if (is_array($attr_tab)) {
$node_attributes = $children->attributes;
foreach ($attr_tab as $key=>$value) {
if ($node_attributes[$key] == $value) {
#echo "ATTRIBUTE & CHANGE CURRENT NODE TO ".$children->name." ";
$current_node = $children;
$last = 1;
}
}
}
else {
##echo "CHILD=".$children->name." ";
#echo "CHANGE CURRENT NODE TO ".$children->name." ";
$current_node = $children;
$last=1;
}
}
if ($last) {
break;
}
}
if (!$last) {
#echo "PATH ERROR $node_name ";
#die("MMmmmh It seems that this file is not a DIA XML format...sorry...");
return 0;
}
}
return $current_node;
}
function browse_tree($path) {
$node = $this->give_node($path);
if (is_object($node)) {
$this->current_node = $node;
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
# this method dumps an html representation of the xml tree
function xml_show($node = "",$level=0,$last=0) {
if ($node=="") {
$node=$this->root_node;
}
if (!is_object($node)) {
die("ERROR : node is not an object");
}
$line="";
for($i=1;$i<=$level;$i++) {
if ((i==$level-1) and ($last)) {
$line.=" ";
}
else {
$line.=" |";
}
if ($i==$level) {
$line.="`-";
}
}
$line.=$node->name;
#echo $line;
$line.="".count($node->children)."";
if (count($node->children)==1) {
$line.=" (".$node->value.") \n";
echo "$line";
}
else {
$line.=" \n";
echo "$line";
$i=1;
foreach($node->children as $children) {
if ($i==count($node->children)) {
$this->xml_show($children,$level+1,1);
}
else {
$this->xml_show($children,$level+1);
}
$i++;
}
}
}
#END_CLASS
}
WHITE WILLOW (fi) - Storm Season (2005)

Label : The Laser’s Edge / Musea
Sortie du Scud : 8 novembre 2005
Pays : Finlande
Genre : Goth Prog
Type : Album
Playtime : 7 Titres - 47 Mins
Storm Season est un album à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains car il nous plonge dans un univers très particulier : sombre, froid, mélancolique. Par ailleurs il s’écarte franchement des schémas “Metal” auxquels nous sommes habitués puisqu’il ne contient presque pas de guitare. Il s’agit donc d’un style hybride puisant davantage dans le Goth et le Progressif que dans le Rock à proprement parler. Doux arpèges, mélodies langoureuses, violoncelles, flûte, mellotron, piano et orgue ont bien plus de place que les guitares.
Ceci étant dit, WHITE WILLOW parvient parfaitement à créer un univers musical unique. Le chant féminin est à des années-lumière des cantatrices du Metal, ici il est question d’émotions et Sylvia Erichsen nous donne l’impression de vivre sa musique.
Les ambiances sont très variées – ce qui n’est pas étonnant vu que le groupe est composé de 8 membres plus quelques invités – mais l’album est particulièrement cohérent ; il parvient à conserver ce ton nostalgique et triste en dépit des alternances de rythme, et l’on ne s’éloigne jamais durablement des ballades.
On regrettera une production très fade qui ne donne aucune ampleur à l’ensemble et qui laisse de côté certains instruments, la batterie notamment.
L’artwork, en revanche, est particulièrement soigné.
Storm Season s’adresse donc à un public particulier, qu’il a de bonnes chances de séduire.
Ajouté : Vendredi 25 Novembre 2005 Chroniqueur : Alexis de Fireball Score :    Lien en relation: White Willow Website Hits: 13563
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