One strategy for SXML-related support would be for the Racket community
to collectively do all 3 of these:
1. Treat the monolithic `sxml` package of Oleg's various SXML-related
tools remaining pretty frozen in its current state. This will be the
"raw, classic, everything" package. It will be OK if this package errs
on the side of `provide` rather than non-`provide`, because of #2 below,
so don't expend much energy on those decisions, nor on API changes here,
nor on how to document it. We will expect this package to be
deprecated, as soon as its key functionality is covered by #2 and #3.
2. People can make new non-monolithic packages of individual Oleg
SXML-related libraries (e.g., SXPath, SSAX, various SXML accessors,
maybe also split out his prologue), with non-backward-compatible
tidied-up names (e.g., no mixed-case and prefixes, make sure no provided
names *too* generic) and add polished API documentation like a core
Racket package would have. Probably the code for each of these should
start as selective copy&paste of code from the `sxml` package.
3. People can also make new topical SXML-related packages that might or
might not incorporate any Oleg code, and do not try to retain the
interfaces of Oleg's code. For example, the mother of all SXML
accessors and constructors, agonizing over the naming and completeness.
Also use modern Racket features in the interfaces (e.g., keyword
arguments, sequences).
I regret that I don't have time right now to volunteer for any of this,
but I'm always happy to try to boss around other people. :) If currently
more-industrious people make packages for #2 and #3, please email me, so
that I can add the packages to the `sxml-intro` document:
http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/sxml-intro/
BTW, if you're making new HTML-related SXML-ish packages, we should
probably talk. There's a historic headache with extensions to SXML for
HTML, most of it my fault, but most of the remaining extensions can be
abandoned (now that packages are for Racket with Unicode support only,
rather than in portable R4RS+SRFIs Scheme), and I want to discourage use
of the extensions. Also, I want to make a new HTML5 parser from
scratch, using everything I now know, but that will probably have to
wait for funding or winning the lottery.
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