> Keith F Irwin writes:
> > Folks--
> >
> > I love the XMLS package because it takes XML and turns it into s-exps
> > which I can then car/cdr through for whatever I want. My needs are
> > simple and that package fits 'em.
I also like it and use it for a little podcatcher, that is to parse RSS.
On 1/16/06, Tim Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I'd point out an alternative package which may already
> support other language encodings - the package is called s-xml (in
> Debian it is cl-s-xml). Just thought I'd mention this in case the
> s-xml package is more maintained and more flexible than xmls as it
> would probably be better to put efforts into just one xml parsing
> package?
Well, s-xml seems to lack important features:
" This XML parser implementation has the following limitations:
* It does not support CDATA.
* Only supports simple character sets.
* It does not support name spaces
* It does not support any special tags (like processing instructions).
* It is not validating, even skips DTD's all together."
If by "support CDATA" they mean CDATA marked sections, that is bad. I
see these used in RSS feeds a lot. Namespaces are also used, but for
my application they can be ignored.
It would seem that s-xml would need some work before it could replace xmls.
--
//Lennart Staflin
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