why not write httpfs analogous to olefs? diverting from the topic at hand, awk would be very interesting if extended so that records could be defined by structured regular expressions other than '^.*\n'.
Skip Tavakkolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes | | > You'd need a parser to map a document's structure | > into an s-expr and then you can do all the intresting stuff | > in this awk-for-s-expr language. | | sexpr and scheme are made for each other. | | irc, presotto was contemplating a solution a couple of years ago. | | we had to use an old version of expat xml parsing library (it's open | source) for a project. it has had many updates by now. you supply it | helper functions for the node types you're interested in.
