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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: dsmith@altustech.com, wjb@abstractnonsense.com, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What can I do to help?
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:50:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r8eumgfh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zntzdree.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (Rob Browning's message of "Mon, 30 Sep 2002 17:49:45 -0500")

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> Tom Lord <lord@regexps.com> writes:
>
>> How about, instead of adding to the size of guile and the number of
>> primitive types, a filter program that translates between XML and
>> s-expressions?
>
> You won't get any argument from me.

One thing I did forget to mention that's probably key here, is that
while for some tasks a a trivial XML->sexp conversion might be great,
it isn't all that desirable for others, esp where large files are
concerned.  XML docs are usually organized as one giant tree, and so
if you have a 30MB data file, you may not want to have to convert it
*in-memory* to a giant ??MB sexp just so you can search it to find
some bank deposit (or whatever) on 2002-10-23.

With the libxml approach, you can (painfully) arrange for callbacks so
that you can incrementally parse the document and only capture as much
content as you need.

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-10-13 16:50 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
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 [this message]
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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