On Jan 15, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Keith F Irwin wrote: > What I don't know how to do is, well, take over that > maintainership, so > I'd need a mentor to help with that. My preference is for > common-lisp.net (though I'm not a fan of cvs), with a mailing list and > the whole thing. > > What do you think? Next steps?
I've used XMLS to and like it for the same reasons you do. However I think some of the new kids on the block are even better and not much more heavyweight. (Some even support parsing to XMLS-compatible output as an option.) So a good Gardener's project would be to do a bit of research and write up the pros and cons of the different XML parsers out there (are they maintained, are they complete, what limitations do they have, etc.) Then it might make sense to do what we can to help out the current front runner, whether that's supplying patches, docs, test cases, or simply pointing people to it. The main XML parsers I know of are: XMLS -- small code base, simple to use, not full featured CL-XML[1] -- huge code base, impossible (for me) to understand, extremely full featured CXML[2] -- I haven't looked at this one, but I hear it's a happy medium. [1] <http://pws.prserv.net/James.Anderson/XML/> [2] <http://www.cliki.net/cxml> Maybe you can start there and make a page on the ALU Wiki to summarize the state of the XML in Lisp world. -Peter -- Peter Seibel * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gigamonkeys Consulting * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/ Practical Common Lisp * http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
