From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:02:44 +0200 Message-ID: <83lj6rtvq3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5x7ty2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5wo48a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739t03q2g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4C9C1107.5010000@harpegolden.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285315396 520 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 08:03:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David De La Harpe Golden Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 24 10:03:14 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz3FS-0001ze-Li for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:03:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz3FS-0008JQ-5C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:03:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45107 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz3F6-0008J7-Ka for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz3F4-00077Y-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:02:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:38573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz3F3-000774-Rx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9800E00R0ZYT00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:02:39 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.203.3]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9800ER9ROE0YE0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:02:39 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <4C9C1107.5010000@harpegolden.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:130735 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:46:31 +0100 > From: David De La Harpe Golden > > I'm not too convinced mapping xml element and attribute names to > interned lisp symbols at all is particularly desirable. Not that I > personally use xml-... in emacs lisp much/ever, but I have used common > lisp xml parsing in the past and seem to remember that using strings was > overall less problematic than symbols (and it wasn't just down to case - > common lisp only looks case insensitive), just generally easier to be > non-lossy and non-cluttering-symbol-table-with-random-xml-crap. Read > some transient xml message once? have some useless symbols hanging round > forever (for small values of forever). If polluting the global obarray is a concern, perhaps we could use a private one for XML symbols.