Re: [racket-users] Re: A couple of questions about Neil's html reader/writer

2015-07-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Greg Hendershott wrote on 07/28/2015 04:30 PM: Imagine conversion functions `xexpr->sxml` and `sxml->xexpr`. Would implementing them be any easier than unifying xexprs and sxml (or is it really just the same problem)? Yes, I think those procedures would be easy to implement in such a way that

Re: [racket-users] Re: A couple of questions about Neil's html reader/writer

2015-07-28 Thread Greg Hendershott
Maybe a dumb question, but: Imagine conversion functions `xexpr->sxml` and `sxml->xexpr`. Would implementing them be any easier than unifying xexprs and sxml (or is it really just the same problem)? If it turns out there isn't any ideal implementation, is there at least some pragmatic implementa

Re: [racket-users] Re: A couple of questions about Neil's html reader/writer

2015-07-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Oops, I meant to mention Kirill Lisovsky as an early developer of neat SXML tools, too. Neil Van Dyke wrote on 07/28/2015 10:51 AM: In short, it's a historical accident, but the confusion seems less costly than a compromise would, IMHO. Details... 15 years ago, the famous Oleg Kiselyov defin

[racket-users] Re: A couple of questions about Neil's html reader/writer

2015-07-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
In short, it's a historical accident, but the confusion seems less costly than a compromise would, IMHO. Details... 15 years ago, the famous Oleg Kiselyov defined SXML: http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html Scheme people in general saw that SXML was good. Perhaps more a motivation, we saw t