Re: Problems with xml-parse-string

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:46:31 +0100
> From: David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden>
> 
> I'm not too convinced mapping xml element and attribute names to 
> interned lisp symbols at all is particularly desirable.  Not that I 
> personally use xml-... in emacs lisp much/ever, but I have used common 
> lisp xml parsing in the past and seem to remember that using strings was 
> overall less problematic than symbols (and it wasn't just down to case - 
> common lisp only looks case insensitive), just generally easier to be 
> non-lossy and non-cluttering-symbol-table-with-random-xml-crap. Read 
> some transient xml message once? have some useless symbols hanging round 
> forever (for small values of forever).

If polluting the global obarray is a concern, perhaps we could use a
private one for XML symbols.