Re: Re: compiling XPath to Scheme source code

  Hello Oleg,

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:47:16 -0800 (PST)
[email protected] wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> >   I'm working on translating XPath expressions to Scheme
> > source code which evaluates the XPath.
> 
> Isn't it like the specialization of the general sxpath function of the
> type
> 	sxpath:: SXPath -> SXML -> Nodelist
> to the particular value of SXPath?

  Yes, it looks so.

> Then we are talking about Partial
> Evaluation (PE for short) -- which is a vast and developed area. I
> wonder why Michael Sperber hasn't said anything: he wrote several
> well-cited papers on this topic (as well as a partial evaluator for
> the full Scheme, right Mike?). You can see the extensive bibliography
> at
> 
> 	http://library.readscheme.org/page10.html

  Thank you for idea and pointers.

> ...


-- 
Oleg Paraschenko


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