Alex, This is probably way out of scope, but since someone brought up XPath, i couldn't resist... LINQ-like support for XQuery?
Best wishes, --greg On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alex Cruise <a...@cluonflux.com> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I'm Alex Cruise (obviously!) I'm a software architect at > http://www.layer7tech.com/ (located in Vancouver, Canada) and have been > hanging around the Scala community for about a year and a half. I have > recently volunteered to serve as a coordinator for the Scala XML team. At > this time, the XML team (apart from EPFL people, of course) consists of > myself, Michael Fogus, Normen Müller and (I think) David Pollak, but > contributions--including bug reports, patches, complaints, feature requests > and existential angst--are of course welcome from everyone. > > On behalf of said team, I would like to invite everyone who is interested > in Scala's XML support to join the new scala-xml list! (This post cc'd to > scala and liftweb--the latter because the Lift project is easily one of the > heaviest users of scala.xml, and I'm certain that members of that community > will enthusiastically join in the discussion in short order. :) If you'd > like to watch the sausage being made, or even turn the crank a bit yourself, > please subscribe to scala-xml by sending an empty email to > scala-xml-subscr...@listes.epfl.ch . > > Here's some background info for anyone who is unfamiliar with Scala's XML > support: The Scala compiler supports XML literals in Scala source files, > with very few additional restrictions on their syntax. XML literals are > translated into a tree built from instances of several classes in the > scala.xml package ( > http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/api/scala/xml$package.html), and may > contain nested Scala expressions (each of which can also incorporate > sub-nested XML literals, etc...) whose results are interpolated into the > XML. > > The scala.xml.Node class and its descendants form a comparatively > lightweight, immutable, DOM-like representation of XML that can be used in > pattern matching and provide simple, XPath-like node selection queries. The > package also contains a few parsers and other assorted tools. > > IMO we owe a debt of gratitude to Burak Emir, the primary developer of > scala.xml. I believe he has laid a solid foundation that will serve us > well. Burak also wrote > http://burak.emir.googlepages.com/scalaxbook.docbk.html which gives > insight into the rationale behind the design and implementation of the > library. > > Now, let's kick off the list with a small agenda: > > 1) Bug triage > > Rather than list the (~18) known bugs here, I'll supply an URL ( > http://lampsvn.epfl.decenturl.com/scala-xml-bugs), and anyone who feels > like their favourite bug merits further discussion should fire up a new > topic on scala-xml and we'll start hashing it out. If nobody pipes up I'll > start posting individual emails regarding each bug with a few of my own > comments in a few days. > > 2) Proposed enhancements > > I'm sure many of us have a wish list of things we would like to see changed > in Scala's XML support--please feel free to join in and tell us all about > them. > > Thanks for your time, > > -0xe1a > -- L.G. Meredith Managing Partner Biosimilarity LLC 806 55th St NE Seattle, WA 98105 +1 206.650.3740 http://biosimilarity.blogspot.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
