Keith F Irwin writes: > Folks-- > > I love the XMLS package because it takes XML and turns it into s-exps > which I can then car/cdr through for whatever I want. My needs are > simple and that package fits 'em. > > However, it seems to be unmaintained. > > The main problem is that it assumes that the XML you're working with is > latin-1 (for both reading and writing), and, well, the XML I work with > (syndication feeds), isn't. > > So, I've had to patch it a bit to make it work within SBCL. > > I understand the code just enough to make it work for my purposes and at > this point, since it's a single file, I've just started including it > directly into my own projects rather than using the asdf-installable > version. > > SO, here's the deal: > > 1. I'd be happy to take over maintainership of that tiny > code base, set up a darcs repo, etc, etc. > > 2. I'd be happy if someone else took over the maintainership > as well: someone I could submit my patch to who could either > just accept it, or fix the problem it addresses in a more > idiomatic way. > > What I don't know how to do is, well, take over that maintainership, so > I'd need a mentor to help with that. My preference is for > common-lisp.net (though I'm not a fan of cvs), with a mailing list and > the whole thing. > > What do you think? Next steps? > > Keith
Hi Keith, I thought I'd point out an alternative package which may already support other language encodings - the package is called s-xml (in Debian it is cl-s-xml). Just thought I'd mention this in case the s-xml package is more maintained and more flexible than xmls as it would probably be better to put efforts into just one xml parsing package? As I just got the package from a debian archive (etch), I'm not sure where the package normally 'lives'. However, ifyou cannot find it, I can probably dig through the docs and find out where the upstream location for the package is. regards Tim _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
