[racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

* I'd like to efficiently support SXML, as well as my new union of SXML 
and xexprs, by writing while traversing the data structure, without 
introducing an extra copy by first converting to byte string.  Perhaps 
"response/c" could permit a closure to write the content and perhaps to 
produce or write the headers, or something similar?  (Ideally, this does 
not require plugging together components using units and signatures; 
sometimes those tools are indispensable, but they're also cumbersome.)

* I'd say that using SXML or xexprs for HTML and XML responses from a 
Web server is the normal and preferred way to implement most pages.  
Using these efficiently should be easy for people to do in substantial 
systems, such as by letting them define their own wrapper procedure or 
syntax for making a response of their preferred type.  Using SXML or 
xexprs for output should also "give good demo" in tutorials and pilot 
apps, so it would be nice if people doing "#lang simple-web-server" or 
whatever could have a simple and terse way of saying "send an HTML 
response from this SXML or xexpr, with all the continuation magic", such 
as using one procedure or syntax name, rather than two to four.

BTW, SXML and xexprs are a big win for Web development.  For one large 
system in PLT Scheme, the architects have repeatedly mentioned the 
productivity benefits of SXML for HTML pages as one of the major 
advantages of using Scheme.

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