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 14:06:16 -0400 Message-ID: <87vd5xejqf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkv97u1k.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bp7pkcho.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285178818 15972 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 18:06:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:06:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Wojciech Meyer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 20:06:56 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 1OyTiZ-0005Lt-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:06:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyTiY-0007TQ-VE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52444 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyTi0-0007Hy-61 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyThy-0003Eb-Nf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:19 -0400 Original-Received: from pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu ([130.132.50.103]:37545) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyThy-0003EP-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from furry (dhcp128036014154.central.yale.edu [128.36.14.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by pantheon-po40.its.yale.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id o8MI6H7m002522 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:17 -0400 Original-Received: by furry (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00C5516D402; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:06:16 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Wojciech Meyer's message of "Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:51:05 +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:130638 Archived-At: Wojciech Meyer writes: > My personal opinion, is to stick with something that is standardized - > SXml that handles all the cases, and have one and only one uniform > representation. > > If nobody is up to this, I would volunteer to implement the SXml > backend. This is not a bad idea in principle. But how "standardized" is SXML? It doesn't seem to be an official standard developed by W3 or other similar body. If it's an unofficial standard, well, we have our own unofficial standard---xml.el was released in 2000, and so predates SXML.