Re: [Chicken-users] News from the Barnyard

[Joerg F. Wittenberger]

> > An HTML (or better yet XHTML) page with <?scheme ... ?>
> > can be parsed from HTML above to SXML above using SSAX, but for some
> > (code extensive) pages SXML sources may be more reasonable than (X)HTML.
> > I've experienced this with XSLT stylesheets extended with Scheme.
> > And vice versa, for markup-extensive pages with a few code
> > (X)HTML is often preferable.

Ah, same experience with Askemos, where I'm looking over the shoulders
of average programmers learning Scheme/XSLT first time (an invaluable
situation to watch the "natural" selection of a mind without deeply
trained preferences).

They develop a tendency to use mostly XML syntax for the view (as in
MVC) part of the agents, which is mostly markup.  Scheme/DSSSL
dominates the controller part.  Variables (the model third) are
typically mixed: records have a tendency to be XML and derived values
are more often Scheme.

Cheers

/Jörg

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