I notice that sxml-tools doesn't implement the sxml:document procedure
(or at least, I can't find it in any of the XML-related packages).
This seems like a very useful function, because it can handle either
files or URIs.
I think the problem here is that xml:document relies on the
xlink-infrastructure.
xlink is currently not supported by chicken as it lacks the
ssax:multi-parser.
I recently ran in this issue too. I don't know if the maintainer of the
sxml-tools
and ssax has this on his/her todo-list. If not, it may be a good idea to
mail about
it or even start porting the code to chicken and package it up.?
In fact, the sxml:document procedure definition is independent of
XLink-infrastructure. The procedure depends on:
1. SSAX (available as a Chicken egg)
2. HtmlPrag (for retrieving HTML documents in addition to XML documents;
this feature may probably be discarded in case of licence problems)
3. "access-remote.scm" library for getting access to remote resources; I
suppose that there should be an equivalent standard unit/egg in Chicken.
I thus believe that it should be quite easy to port the sxml:document
procedure into a Chicken egg.
Dmitry
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