Re: sxml dom

Oh, sure -- didn't mean to cast aspersions on SXML, or Scheme for that
matter.  But DOM provides some nifty things (like event handling) that
SXML, out of the box, does not.  Perhaps something like "SDOM" would
be more apropos (with an SXML->SDOM mapping) would make more sense. 
Or not.


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:44:35 -0500, Mike Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Everyone has different needs, and your mileage may vary, but I think
> most SSAX users find that manipulating an SXML structure with Scheme's
> native linguistic features (assoc, pattern matching, etc.) is much
> preferable to using a DOM API in Scheme or any other language.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Julian Graham wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> >   Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the DOM support provided
> > by SSAX is limited to parsing documents that could be manipulated
> > according Document Object Model concepts (i.e., parsing XML
> > documents), and that SSAX does not actually provide a DOM-manipulation
> > API.  Has there been any discussion of perhaps adding such an API
> > (didn't see any on the lists)?  Or do people think that would be the
> > province of an application that uses SSAX?
> >   In case it's not obvious, I'm writing such an application, and I'm
> > looking into how possible it would be to do a fully Scheme
> > implementation of the DOM3 core API without adding any extra
> > annotation to the SXML format.  If it were possible, is there room in
> > the SSAX project for a full DOM implementation?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> >
> >
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