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From: "Dale P. Smith" <dsmith@altustech.com>
Cc: wjb@abstractnonsense.com, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What can I do to help?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:27:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020930142718.554c1dc0.dsmith@altustech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15768.37097.404406.330743@blauw.xs4all.nl>

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:59:05 +0200
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> dsmith@altustech.com writes:
> > > Sounds like a good idea to me.  Is anyone else working on this? (don't
> > > want to step on anyone's toes).  Does anybody have any requests/advice for
> > > how it should/shouldn't be done?
> > 
> > I *hope* this is just for interfacing with other systems.  Any beguiled
> > program should be using s-expressions for it's config file format. 
> > That's basically the whole point of using Guile, right? ;^)
> 
> Of course.  According to my overinflated ego, XML is just a complete
> pain to parse, to handle and generate. Unfortunately, it *is* becoming
> a standard, if we like it or not, and having no support for it raise
> the barrier for using GUILE (imo). For example people just keep asking
> me about XML file formats and MusicXML support for Lilypond.  Having
> an XML lib in GUILE would make addressing this issue easier.

Yes, I do believe it is necessary.  But it is a pain and it's ugly too.

> BTW, I did read that there were bindings for expat. I don't know which
> of the systems (expat and libxml) makes most sense to use, though. You
> try to find out whether the old bindings still work with recent GUILE
> releases.

I did get expat working at one time.  I'm not sure what changes need to
be made for 1.6.0 Guile.

Something else to consider is ssax: http://ssax.sourceforge.net/

-Dale

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-30 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-28 10:58 What can I do to help? Dr William Bland
2002-09-28 16:19 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-09-30  8:56   ` Dr William Bland
2002-09-30 10:57     ` Dale P. Smith
2002-09-30 11:47       ` Dr William Bland
2002-09-30 17:59       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-09-30 18:27         ` Dale P. Smith [this message]
2002-09-30 18:52         ` Neil Jerram
2002-09-30 19:22         ` Tom Lord
2002-09-30 18:30       ` Tom Lord
2002-09-30 22:49         ` Rob Browning
2002-10-01  2:56           ` Rob Browning
2002-10-13 16:50           ` Rob Browning
2002-10-19 11:34             ` Jeff Read
2002-09-30 18:38     ` Neil Jerram
2002-09-30 22:35       ` Derek Atkins
     [not found]         ` <warlord@MIT.EDU>
2002-09-30 23:33           ` gnucash
2002-09-30 23:49             ` Derek Atkins
2002-10-01  8:43               ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-10-01 14:15                 ` Derek Atkins
2002-10-01 15:00                   ` Rob Browning
2002-10-02 16:40               ` Rob Browning
2002-10-02 23:15               ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-02 16:34             ` Rob Browning
2002-10-02 16:28         ` Rob Browning
2002-10-02  9:18       ` Martin Grabmueller
2002-09-30 16:13 ` Rob Browning
2002-09-30 18:39   ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-01 17:14 ` What can I do to help? (conclusions) Dr William Bland
2002-10-02 23:15   ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-03 17:14   ` Evan Prodromou
2002-10-04 10:01     ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-04 10:57     ` Clinton Ebadi
2002-10-04 12:26     ` Dale P. Smith
2002-10-04 13:29       ` rm
2002-10-04 16:14         ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-06 17:08           ` rm
2002-10-06 17:34             ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-06 23:23               ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-07  4:03                 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-08 16:31                   ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-08 17:27                     ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-08 20:05                     ` Rob Browning
2002-10-08 20:55                       ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-10  5:26                         ` Rob Browning
2002-10-10  8:34                           ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-08 21:28                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-07  9:00                 ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-07 13:16                   ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-07 14:33                     ` Guile CVS Build Problems (was: Re: What can I do to help? (conclusions)) Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-08 23:05                       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-08 23:40                         ` Rob Browning
2002-10-08 23:13                       ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-09  7:56                         ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-09 15:30                           ` Rob Browning
2002-10-09 17:25                             ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-09 17:37                               ` Andreas Rottmann
2002-10-09 20:18                                 ` Rob Browning
2002-10-09 20:43                                   ` Rob Browning
2002-10-09 21:17                                     ` Rob Browning
2002-10-09 21:39                                       ` Rob Browning
2002-10-07 22:32                     ` What can I do to help? (conclusions) Rob Browning
2002-10-07 21:08                 ` Daniel Skarda
     [not found]                   ` <878z19rl8r.fsf@alice.rotty.yi.org>
2002-10-10 12:07                     ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-04 13:14     ` Evan Prodromou
2002-10-04 15:27       ` Rob Browning
2002-10-04 15:22     ` Rob Browning
2002-10-04 16:02     ` Dale P. Smith
2002-10-04 18:58     ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-04 19:26       ` Evan Prodromou
2002-10-04 19:48       ` Tom Lord
2002-10-06  8:46     ` Fast format (was Re: What can I do to help?) Daniel Skarda
2002-10-06 11:20       ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-10-06 17:53         ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-03 12:00 ` Debian packages (Re: " Daniel Skarda
2002-10-04 12:33   ` Evan Prodromou
2002-10-04 15:43   ` Rob Browning
2002-10-04 18:46     ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-05  5:51       ` Rob Browning
2002-10-05  8:55   ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-06  8:31     ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-06  8:51       ` Jorgen Schaefer
2002-10-06 11:21         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-10-03 18:10 ` What can I do to help? Marius Vollmer
2002-10-03 21:32   ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-03 22:24     ` Marius Vollmer
2002-10-04 18:48       ` guile-debugger (was Re: What can I do to help?) Neil Jerram
2002-10-04 21:26         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2002-10-05  9:03           ` Neil Jerram
2002-10-06  8:51             ` Daniel Skarda
2002-10-12 13:36             ` Marius Vollmer

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