From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:12 -0400 Message-ID: <87bp7nvt9j.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87vd5x7ty2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5wo48a.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <8739t03q2g.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87k4mb2mfu.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87pqw3nm4y.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87iq1v0yi2.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285356331 20852 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2010 19:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:25:31 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 24 21:25:30 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 1OzDtf-000385-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:25:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37763 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OzDte-00053M-PQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50880 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OzDtW-00051P-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzDtR-0002E9-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po43.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.104]:56228) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzDtR-0002E2-Ky for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:13 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po43.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o8OJPCj6021889 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 68FA216D402; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:25:12 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:06:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-YaleITSMailFilter: Version 1.2c (attachment(s) not renamed) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:130798 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> Doesn't seem too horrific. > > It's not too horrific. It's just that it's not as nice as it could > be. And if you deal with these structures all the time, you get to > recreate the (and (consp data) (not (eq (car data) '@))) in every > single branch of every single little trivial function you write (and > read). That's why you use `xml-node-children' and so forth.