Re: [ssax-sxml] SXML in Emacs

[Joerg F. W. <Joe...@so...>]

Hi Oliver,

Oliver Scholz <alk...@gm...> writes:

> I am working on an XML parser framework, much inspired by SSAX, for
> GNU Emacs. An important part of this will probably be an XML->SXML
> parser.

Oh, great!  I'd love to use my good old emacs for XML.  I have too
much XML in that p2p database and just mozilla to edit it.  :-/

> For my XML processing tasks I need a data structure that allows to
> keep the contents of a text-node in an Emacs buffer, as an alternative
> to keeping them only in Lisp strings.  The plan is to have a unique
...
> Any thoughts? Or is SXML just not the right thing for me?  I have no
> particular need for it myself, but I fancied that it would be nice for
> users to have a somewhat standard s-expression representation.

I had a simillar problem with Askemos/BALL.  Only that I had reason to
stick with a uniqe data type for the element nodes.  Eventually that
implied for me, that I can't switch to SXML as the internal data
structure.  But I'd be fancied for standard too.

How about either define the standard in terms of predicates (like
xml-element?, xml-attribute? and xml-literal?) or implement it as
converter from SXML representation to the internal representation.
I'm personally in favor for the predicate-approach, since it would
save processing.

best regards

/J=F6rg

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