Re: [Chicken-users] Iron Chicken

[Shawn W.]

On Jul 7, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:

> I'm working on some bot code for wikis based on the Mediawiki engine,
> which powers Wikipedia.  My project name is Iron Chicken.

The Iron prefix seems to be used a lot for .NET re-implementations of  
languages.
Might give people the wrong idea when they see a link to it...

> The egg makes extensive use of sxml, so you need htmlprag and
> sxml-tools to use it.  The sxml facility is pretty cool because api
> output is all in xml, and you can do amazing stuff with sxpath to
> navigate the output data.  There is some example code.

I don't like XML. But I discovered SXML recently, and... wow. SXML +  
scheme is the first
non-painful way to manipulate XML  that I've seen. I still think that  
many of the ways people
have come up to use XML are like pounding a square peg in a round  
hole, but for cases
where it makes sense to use XML (Like what I was working on when I  
found SXML -- I was
already storing marked-up text in a format that was 99% there), it's  
going to be a really hard
choice not to use SXML. I don't care so much about using sxpath and  
pre-post-order and such. SXML's just lists. I /know/ how to  
manipulate lists. :)

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Shawn W.
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