I'm looking for a simple way to represent a search query as XML. The query language applies to email messages, and is a superset of the IMAP SEARCH syntax. It can express things like "flag blah is set, and the subject contains foo, and the text contains bar or baz": a handful of primitives plus the usual logical combinators.
I want to take that query (stored internally as an sexpr-style string) and render it as XML. I don't really care what the output looks like, I only need to be able to manipulate its structure with some JavaScript, and then send it back to the server. Of course, I could just sprinkle some < and > around and come up with something; but I'm wondering if there's something around that is meant to be used for such purposes already. It's hard to ask Google for such a thing (because of e.g. XQuery and XPath) and so far I have failed to explain what I want to people who know more about XML than I do. Why XML? Because it has to be something. I don't care, I just want to be able to simply edit it with JavaScript. Any thoughts? (Tim?) -- ams
