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: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:44 -0400 Message-ID: <87mxr9ei3b.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkv97u1k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bp7pkcho.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5xejqf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285180915 26321 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 18:41:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:41:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 20:41:53 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 1OyUGO-0006Eq-Nj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyUGO-0005le-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=53873 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyUGJ-0005lZ-1O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyUGH-0001WT-P8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po43.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.104]:55954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyUGH-0001WI-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:45 -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 o8MIfiO6017745 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:44 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4EE7116D402; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:41:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:34:50 +0100") 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:130641 Archived-At: Leo writes: > On 2010-09-22 19:14 +0100, Edward O'Connor wrote: >> More importantly, there's a fair amount of elisp out there that >> expects the structure xml.el puts out. If you ask me [which, of >> course, you didn't :)] the libxml stuff should be made to output the >> exact same structure as xml.el already does. > > I would think those packages use the public functions offered by xml.el > to do their work. The structure should remain internal. The public functions return the parse tree. I don't think it's possible to abstract that away.