Re: SXML in Emacs

Hello!

> (*TEXT* <buffer> <parent-element>)

I guess the question is about SXML being able to handle
atomic datatypes other than strings. Of course it can. You might have
noticed the footnote in
	SSAX/examples/validate-doctype-simple.scm
	
that reads:

"[1] One may use any Scheme value in the "character" content of an SXML
element or attribute as long as this value is not a pair or a
symbol. If we need to insert a pair or a symbol in the "character"
content, we should wrap them in a vector or a procedure."

Thus you can represent a text string in SXML as a Scheme/Lisp atomic datum
(e.g., an vector or an array or a structure or a closure) and pack
there as many fields and references as needed.

> In fact, when reading about SXML I tended to regard it primarily as a
> data structure

Indeed: the end of the Introduction section in the SXML documentation
says that SXML is a term language. SXML is a datastructure that gives
a realization to the abstract XML Infoset.



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