On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 12:39:19PM -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > Is xexprs really maintained either? At any rate, not all software needs > very active maintenance; sxml seems to be fairly stable. Maybe you > disagree. :) > > At any rate, I don't think xexprs support namespaces, which sxml has > tooling for, which is one important thing.
There was once a paper published calle "The essence of XML" that emphasized that what made XML different from all other ways of linearizing a tree structure was that it handled namespaces properly. So if you don't want to have namespaces -- which make it possible to embed disparate algebras into the same tree -- you might as well use S-expressions. -- hendrik > > Matthew Butterick writes: > > > I (ab)use xexprs for Pollen because they're used in the Racket web > > server, and because at the time, SXML seemed largely abandoned — no > > traffic on its mailing list [1] and today, even Oleg's SXML page is a > > 404. [2] > > > > I wouldn't try to pry SXML from anyone's fingers. But dragging around > > open-source software abandoned by its owner tends to incite conditions > > of madness. (Insert your favorite 80s typesetting system here.) > > > > [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/ssax/mailman/ssax-sxml/ > > [2] http://pobox.com/~oleg/ftp/Scheme/SXML.html > > > > On Jan 30, 2019, at 10:27 AM, Christopher Lemmer Webber > > <cweb...@dustycloud.org> wrote: > > > > IMO, it makes more sense to have sxml be the "right" one, since it has > > wider user outside of just Racket, and there are some much nicer tools > > available for it: > > > > https://docs.racket-lang.org/sxml-intro/index.html#%28part._.Tools%29 > > > > (That, and I find the @ property syntax a bit easier to follow, but that > > barely matters.) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
