From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Leo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Problems with xml-parse-string Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:00:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87pqw6d7nz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87zkvaiked.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87vd5ymptn.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1285153285 21608 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2010 11:01:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:01:25 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 22 13:01:21 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 1OyN4i-0002yl-Nu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49043 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyN4i-0006K5-Io for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36313 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OyN4X-0006HO-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:01:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyN4W-0006jk-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:01:09 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39684) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyN4W-0006jd-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:01:08 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OyN4S-0002r3-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:01:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com ([86.9.122.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:01:04 +0200 Original-Received: from sdl.web by cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:01:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc1-cmbg13-0-0-cust596.5-4.cable.virginmedia.com Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACgAAAAoBAMAAAB+0KVeAAAAG1BMVEUAAAA9Cgm3Hx1WWFWA gn+WmJWsrqv4+vcCAwCRl2MkAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAFiS0dEAIgFHUgAAAAJcEhZcwAAAYoA AAGKATOXMFgAAAAHdElNRQfXAQwDNR+ZJmElAAABIklEQVQoz22SPW+DQAyGWUq65qasd9PNUSX4 AZHK2C1rJy5jpDS4IwRVup9dn7GNafpKIPPgzztXFSujqq1eM2n8h22oMkvxI/i9C97kRfMRUN55 dS3BrsAwBXUtMLAO4lryh8kTjOxKpQNniNxAgZOEe4bZwsDTFhKdqZRLNII4OQNHhEuq/RMkm6Cj TnnEA/fk0BorcYn5qA3oaeAxbaBOLrX+9G48NZ2Fzc2tzDM8Q+tMypEOqYHh8mAWaaK3U/cDMOT5 aMZMABgPXc7zPMs1A8DXO756GFJ/4fMEq47hTsAdn5avoxZ4ywl0c2w4Flu2Ybeyb3S+EqxX2DYA H8veJGEDTnHnrXvRaPyt+2kSfK6rfBZ2tUtfP/mR+pR6sX8BUZ/cDV7tvkoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (Mac OS X 10.6.4) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IfxL+GIbGz9qkgkObip2SL+UKM4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:130603 Archived-At: On 2010-09-22 11:35 +0100, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Anyway, I was going to rework the functions to be `html-parse-buffer' > again, since in 99% of cases you have the html in a buffer, and > putting it in a string just to call that function is odd. +2 for the -buffer variants. Maybe -region is better (more flexible). I think we can leave xml.el alone for now except maybe renaming its internal function xml-parse-string (which does no parsing). And there is xmltok another parser that does validating. It'd be extremely useful for emacs to have a set of solid and stable xml API. Leo