Hi All, I am a Rebol newbie and I haven't worked with the XML libraries mentioned earlier, but I have done a ton of DOM and XSLT work with XML and I was wondering if the standard series/block function/refinements could be adapted for a parsed XML document tree. I don't right off envision how the ancestor, etc. axes would be handled, but when drilling down or selecting nodelists, would the series model seems to be a good start?
Grant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dec 20, 2004 5:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [REBOL] Re: XML support in Rebol Interesting comments, thanks Peter. I seriously dislike XML for many of the things it is being used for -- too many people taking it beyond its core competence and producing unpleasant architectures based on hierarchical data structures. But for what it is for -- basically a universal form of data exchange -- it's a million times better than its predecessor, which was, essentially CSV files. REBOL has native, natural, and elegant handling for CSV -- simply use parse. But for XML, REBOL is still in the 20th Century. Which is curious. Because REBOL is a messaging language. And XML is increasingly the lingua franca for messages. Sunanda. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. Browse the Web Faster, Safer and Better; Get Firefox - www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=46863&t=1 -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to rebol-request at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
