Re: [Caml-list] XML, XSL, eXcetera

[Henrik Motakef <henrik.motakef@web.de>]

Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> writes:

> A number of people would also be (more) happy if there were a
> common SAX-like interface.

I am one of those. XML documents nowadays tend to get really big, and
I certanly don't want to store all of them in an object structure in
RAM just to filter out the stuff I'm interested in.

Then again, I really don't insinst on SAX-compatibility, I'd rather
see an OCaml-stream based interface actually, like an xml_event
Stream.t, where type xml_event = start_element of String |
character_data of string | end_element of String ...

Regarding the more general question of an "OCaml XML standard": I'd
think it would be really usefull. Especially a tight integration
(maybe with serious Camlp4 magic, I've no idea if it would be
possible) would rock hard. Just imagine something like


match node with
  | foo/bar -> do_something ()
  | bla/blub[@mumbo="jumbo"] -> something_else ()
  ...

i.e. matching XML nodes with XPathes.  Who would want to use XSLT over
this? Certainly not me, never mind the Java weenies ;-)

Regards
Henrik

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