[plt-scheme] Wrote a prelimary xml-pulling parser --- suggestions?

Very interesting. Please document it well!

--Hans

Danny Yoo schreef:
> Hi everyone,
>
>
> I was so bothered by a lack of a pull-style parser for handling large 
> xml files that I've cooked something up:
>
>     http://hashcollision.org/svn/repos/projects/xml-pull/xml-pull.ss
>
> (Dependency: this uses my generator 2.0 PLaneT package which should be 
> up on PLaneT soon, but until then, the package can be found in:
>
>     http://hashcollision.org/tmp/generator.plt)
>
> xml-pull is somewhat based on Python's "pulldom" module.  The idea is 
> to use SSAX to progressively do an event-driven traversal of the XML 
> tree by using pull-event.  At a point where the tree gets interesting, 
> the user can call pull-sexp to get the XML subtree at that point.  
> This can be very useful if an XML ile contains a long sequence of 
> structured items.
>
> It's still very rough and undocumented code, but I wanted to know if 
> anyone else is interested in this.  I'll continue to polish this up, 
> and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Best of wishes!
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