From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] OT: small xml parser found! Message-Id: <20040220135241.2baef42a.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: <254e6411a483bf4a605691ce52824ab3@vitanuova.com> References: <1077194211.30893.200.camel@zevon> <254e6411a483bf4a605691ce52824ab3@vitanuova.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:52:41 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: efad4444-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:45:23 0000 C H Forsyth wrote: >... > - although it's too late to kill it off, there is some nice work in automata > and type systems that can help handle it more reliably It probably wasn't what you meant, and I haven't looked at it in any great detail yet, but the new functional/object language, Scala, claims to use extended ML-style pattern-matching in ways that are useful for XML. The extension is to allow some forms of regular expressions, it appears. Refs at: http://scala.epfl.ch/ and in particular, at: http://scala.epfl.ch/intro/regexppat.html It only runs on .NET or the Java runtime, so isn't immediately useful for Plan 9! Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}