From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:23:08 +0200 From: Aharon Robbins Message-id: <201001181923.o0IJN8On004085@skeeve.com> To: climber.tim@gmail.com In-reply-to: Cc: 9fans@9fans.net Subject: Re: [9fans] dataflow programming from shell interpreter Topicbox-Message-UUID: c05363f0-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 In article you write: >Is this possible for UNIX philosophy to develop further? Let's say, >XML-coded trees or graphs instead of one-line strings in stdin/ >stdout.Or LISP S-expressions. New set of utilities for filtering such >streams, grep for XML trees, etc. Building environment for dataflow >programming from shell interpreter. >Any interesting papers exist on this topic? See the xmlgawk project, xgawk.sourceforge.net, for modifications to gawk that add xml parsing and allow you to work XML nodes instead of records. Arnold -- Aharon (Arnold) Robbins arnold AT skeeve DOT com P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 50 729-7545 D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL