At 2018-05-17T13:40:47-04:00, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > 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 think 3 is the most attractive possibility, modulo the practical problems of human resources. SXML surely needs to be augmented. For instance, as far as I know, it doesn't understand XInclude, and seems to deal with inclusions using external parsed general entities, which is perhaps a bit dated at this stage of XML usage. It may be best to adapt the good parts of SXML, and build a well-maintained and modern XML toolkit for Racket, without bothering about portability to other Scheme implementations. Anyway, just thinking aloud. Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra <ra...@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/ -- 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.
