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Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions)
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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:26:05AM -0400, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> > 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.
No, you're not! Let's not talk about libxml-bindings for a moment
(more on that in a later mail) -- the problem with the above mentioned
things is simply: there's (almost) no documentation on how to do it.
Yes, a GOOPS-ish guile-libxml would be great, but there _is_ currently
no C goops interface. Throwing such a task at a newcomer is "absolute
criminal" :-) Oh, and i guess we shouldn't forget that libxml has several
dozent functions and about two handfull of smobable objects (and a pretty
tricky memory concept when it comes to guile bindings, if i might add).
I agree on the comments on XMLs boneheadedness ;-)
> 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).
Yes, considering the fact that xml seems to be GNOMEs configuration format
and the fact that many modern document formats are XML languages bindings
are important (SVG, XSL-FO, MS-Office, StarOffice, etc.).
For SOAP use i'd suggest a binding to one of the exisiting SOAP libraries,
it just doesn't pay of to deal with SOAP on the XML level.
- Ralf
> -Dale
>
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- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Dr William Bland, 2002/10/01
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Neil Jerram, 2002/10/02
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Evan Prodromou, 2002/10/03
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/04
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Dale P. Smith, 2002/10/04
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- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/04
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), rm, 2002/10/06
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/06
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Marius Vollmer, 2002/10/06
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Rob Browning, 2002/10/07
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/08
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/08
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Rob Browning, 2002/10/08
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Andreas Rottmann, 2002/10/08
- Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions), Rob Browning, 2002/10/10