jgoerzen: > On Mon April 21 2008 1:11:19 pm Don Stewart wrote: > > Galois, Inc. is pleased to announce the open source release of a suite of > > web programming libraries for Haskell! > > Lots of cool stuff here! A few questions: > > > * xml > > A simple, lightweight XML parser/generator. > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xml > > Can you describe how this compares to HaXml? Were there deficiencies in > HaXml?
Much smaller, fewer dependencies. I think of it as the "tagsoup" of xml parsers. > > * sqlite > > Haskell binding to sqlite3 <http://sqlite.org/>, a light, fast > > database. > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sqlite > > Similar questions here regarding HDBC. Did HDBC (and HDBC-sqlite3) not > address some need? Yes, we needed full, low-level access to sqlite for some unusual use cases. For high level stuff, HDBC and Takusen are nicer. > > * feed > > Interfacing with RSS (v 0.9x, 2.x, 1.0) and Atom feeds > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/feed > > Sweet. Might have to refactor hpodder to use this. > > > > > * mime > > Haskell support for working with MIME types. > > > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mime > > FWIW, I have some similar but slightly different functions in MissingH. > > http://software.complete.org/static/missingh/doc//MissingH/Data-MIME-Types.html > > hsemail and WASH both also have some stuff in this area. Probably not as > nice as yours though. We should probably bundle up a bunch of the small mime libs into a single package at some point. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
