Re: What can I do to help?

[Rob Browning]

Rob Browning <address@hidden> writes:

> Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> How about, instead of adding to the size of guile and the number of
>> primitive types, a filter program that translates between XML and
>> s-expressions?
>
> You won't get any argument from me.

One thing I did forget to mention that's probably key here, is that
while for some tasks a a trivial XML->sexp conversion might be great,
it isn't all that desirable for others, esp where large files are
concerned.  XML docs are usually organized as one giant tree, and so
if you have a 30MB data file, you may not want to have to convert it
*in-memory* to a giant ??MB sexp just so you can search it to find
some bank deposit (or whatever) on 2002-10-23.

With the libxml approach, you can (painfully) arrange for callbacks so
that you can incrementally parse the document and only capture as much
content as you need.

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Rob Browning
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