From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: =?iso-8859-2?Q?=A9t=ECp=E1n_N=ECmec?= <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@stupidchicken.com>,
'Thien-Thi Nguyen' <ttn@gnuvola.org>,
"'Andrew W. Nosenko'" <andrew.w.nosenko@gmail.com>,
'Emacs developers' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
joakim@verona.se, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: online conversion support from xsd to rng?
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:52:13 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hfitmwi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxoe5w50.fsf@gmail.com>
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Němec writes:
> This is nonsense. XPath and friends are not bound to the external
> representation of the data in any way. They operate on the DOM tree. So
> as long as your XML conversion to sexp format is lossless (which it
> should be, of course), you lose nothing, only gain the advantages of
> saner format (i.e. sexp) both for humans and the machine -- you just
> need an XPath etc. implementation for your language.
Sure. But our language doesn't have a standard lossless format yet,
it doesn't have an XPath implementation at all, and it's not clear to
me why a lossless sexp format would be all that much more readable
than XML (assuming an XML mode designed to be readable, which would
probably be a bigger gain than XML-to-Lisp -- all XML modes I've seen
have been designed for use by those who think XML is readable).
I think you've got a lot of work ahead of you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-30 9:37 online conversion support from xsd to rng? joakim
2010-12-01 9:57 ` joakim
2010-12-07 17:18 ` Chong Yidong
2010-12-07 22:42 ` joakim
2010-12-08 1:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-08 8:19 ` joakim
2010-12-08 15:58 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-08 10:45 ` Andrew W. Nosenko
2010-12-08 15:54 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-12-09 16:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 0:06 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-12-10 1:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-12-10 1:47 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-10 1:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-12-10 6:49 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-12-11 2:17 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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