Re: ANN: SDOM project development release 0.4

[Julian Graham]

Hi Neil,
  Well, maybe I don't understand the question, but I'd say you could
use SDOM pretty much anywhere you'd use, say, JDOM, but wanted to use
Scheme instead of Java.  Granted, the most popular application of the
DOM is in web browsers alongside (X)HTML, but I find it's quite handy
for doing high-level manipulation of XML documents in general.  I know
some people have strong feelings about the isomorphism between XML and
S-expressions that SXML exploits and that SDOM kind of runs counter to
that, but it also provides a few features that SSAX doesn't -- and
that I needed for the projects I'm working on -- such as the event
handling stuff and a stronger type system for XML nodes.
  As regards the manual, point taken -- I'm kind of assuming a high
level of familiarity with W3C specifications and the docs could
probably use some more examples / discussion of applications.


Regards,
Julian

On 12/28/05, Neil Jerram <address@hidden> wrote:
> Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Schemers,
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce that the SDOM project has released version
> > 0.4, our third development release.  [...] SDOM is an attempt to
> > provide a complete implementation of the W3C Document Object Model
> > Level 3 specification, including event handling, in Scheme, as an
> > extension of Oleg Kiselyov's SXML system.
>
> Hi Julian,
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but can you indicate how/where I might use SDOM,
> other than within a web browser?  I looked at your manual, but it was
> a case of all trees and no wood.
>
> (And within a web browser, it seems to me that the browser would have
> to support Scheme, which I don't believe any of the common ones do
> right now.)
>
> Regards,
>         Neil
>
>
>