On Dec 19, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Frank Buss wrote: > Marco Antoniotti wrote: > >> Unicode et similia and XML are orthogonal concerns. You can have XML >> (*) manipulation (look around for the CL-XML or CXML libraries on >> common-lisp.net plus a godzillion other ones I forgot) without Unicode >> etc. These libraries are quite portable. > > but these libraries have to deal with the XML data then as binary data > and > they have to evaluate the initial 2 bytes at least, because if they > think > it is plain ASCII, an XML file which is valid in utf-16 format becomes > invalid.
True, but this is not chicken and egg problem. My argument is that you do not require XML manipulation to do Unicode et similia. Most CL implementations are a proof of this. Cheers -- Marco Antoniotti http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu/~marcoxa NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 715 Broadway 10th FL fax. +1 - 212 - 998 3484 New York, NY, 10003, U.S.A. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
