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Re: XML-aware programming language?

• To: Dmitry Lizorkin <lizorkin@i...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 07:54:33 -0500
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Dmitry Lizorkin wrote:


> The idea of this approach is the representation of XML documents in the form
> of Scheme nested lists. For example, the following piece of an XML document:
> 
> <tag attr1="value1" attr2="value2">
>   <nested>Text node</nested>
>   <empty/>
> </tag>
> 
> is represented in the form of Scheme nested lists as follows:
> 
> (tag (@ (attr1 "value1") (attr2 "value2"))
>   (nested "Text node")
>   (empty)
> )


You seem to have thrown out the boundary white space here. Is this 
representation capable of handling mixed content in a natural way? i.e. 
is this syntactically correct?

  (tag (@ (attr1 "value1") (attr2 "value2"))
    (nested "Text node")
    "More text"
    (empty)
    "Hmm, what should we do about
     line breaks?"
  )


Also important: is the encoding for this representation some form of 
Unicode?

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Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharo@m...
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