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Subject: Re: [9fans] webscript 
Date: Fri,  7 Oct 2005 11:11:24 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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> You'd need a parser to map a document's structure
> into an s-expr and then you can do all the intresting stuff
> in this awk-for-s-expr language.

sexpr and scheme are made for each other.

irc, presotto was contemplating a solution a couple of years ago.

we had to use an old version of expat xml parsing library (it's open
source) for a project.  it has had many updates by now.  you supply it
helper functions for the node types you're interested in.