XSLT processor implemented in Emacs Lisp?

[Ovidiu P. <ov...@cu...>]

Hi,

I was lately investigating the usage of Lisp/Scheme in building Web
applications, and it dawned on me how easy is to build a fully fledged
Web/XML application using Lisp.

As a proof of this concept, I was lately toying with the idea of
implementing an XSLT processor in Lisp. If you look at XSLT, it is
nothing else than a functional language with an XML syntax. It should
be possible to take an XSLT program and generate an equivalent Lisp
program that performs the equivalent transformation.

Is there any interest in having such a pure Emacs Lisp implementation
of an XSLT processor? I can see it being very useful for doing in
editor transformations, and using normal Java/C/C++ based XSLT
processors in normal applications. It would probably be a lot easier
to have a reliable debugger when the XSLT engine is written in
Lisp. On the other hand things like extension functions in foreign
languages will be more difficult to do.

How many of you would actually need or use such a feature?

Thanks,
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