Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions)

[Dale P. Smith]

On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:14:27 -0400
Evan Prodromou <address@hidden> wrote:

> >>>>> "WB" == William Bland <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     WB> If anyone wants to try to talk me out of it though, I'm still
>     WB> open to comments ;-)
> 
> Dr. Bland,
> 
> It's absolutely criminal that you could come and ask for a job to do
> and get turned away. There is so, so, so much to do. Shame on us!
> 
> I think there are a ton of projects that need to be done for Guile
> that are not yet done. For example:
> 
>     * A SAX2 parser GOOPS interface and drivers for libxml, expat,
>       xerces, etc.  (Whoever told you not to make it easy for Guile
>       developers to use XML is a bonehead, by the way. XML will never
>       be s-expressions, but that doesn't mean that using it isn't
>       important!)

That must have been me.  Yes, I'm a bonehead a lot.  Sorry.

I had visions of Guile using xml as a doc format (and other horrors) and
responded without really reading your message.

Being able to interface with other systems using xml is a good thing and
needs to be done.  There is this stuff called soap that uses xml for
rpc's (iirc).

-Dale

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