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Re: Problems with xml-parse-string
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Leo |
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Re: Problems with xml-parse-string |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:53:24 +0100 |
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On 2010-09-23 16:43 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Leo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2010-09-23 00:59 +0100, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> FWIW, while I haven't use sml.el much, the little bit I've used it was
>>> not particularly pleasant, partly because of the odd format. I don't
>>> know how/why the xml.el was chosen and how much thought was put into
>>> it, but my experience with it is not 100% positive.
>>
>> That looks like my experience too.
>
> The main differences in the "new" format are (i) listing attributes as
> (:foo bar) inside the element list, rather than in an alist after the
> element name, (ii) listing text as (text "foo") rather than "foo", and
> (iii) the as-yet-unresolved issue with XML namespaces, which probably
> needs to be fixed in xml.c.
>
> Point (i) is a broken design choice, as I already pointed out. As for
> (ii), it is a little nicer to take the cdr of each list member without
> checking for stringp. If others thing this is a really good change, I
> won't object, though it seems pretty trivial to me. We can add an
> optional flag to the xml-* functions to toggle between the two
> representations.
I don't mind one way or another but I prefer one format instead.
Leo
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, (continued)
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Leo, 2010/09/22
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/22
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/22
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/22
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/22
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Leo, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string,
Leo <=
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Stefan Monnier, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Chong Yidong, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, David De La Harpe Golden, 2010/09/23
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, David Kastrup, 2010/09/24
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/24
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/24
- Re: Problems with xml-parse-string, Wojciech Meyer, 2010/09/24