[cxml-devel] DOM classes not exported?

[Sunil Mishra]

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Hi David,

David Lichteblau wrote:
> Quoting Sunil Mishra (smishra at sfmishras.com):
>> I had another thought concerning the DOM API in cxml. Have you
>> considered creating an independent out of the DOM API, just as there is
>> a separate package in Java that does nothing but create the interface
> 
> IMO that would be worth it if and only if there is at least one other
> DOM implementation willing to use it.

Agreed. But there is a chicken-and-egg situation here: without a
re-usable DOM API, there will never be another piece of software that
re-uses the DOM API.

> 
>> classes for the DOM API? Having such a standard API to program against
>> does make it possible to develop other CL packages (such as an XPath
>> parser) without having to commit to a specific XML parser.
> 
> Hopefully XPath can be implemented based on a simpler interface,
> something more general than DOM.  ISTR that CL-XML uses infoset-like
> function names.

Well, given that:

1. I can't find the XPath implementation of CL-XML; and
2. My XPath implementation is less than a toy at present

I am not going to pursue this matter any further, other than state an
opinion that having a standard API available for multiple pieces of
software to use can at least theoretically lead to the development of
independent inter-operable modules. There has been *some* success due to
this approach in the Java world.

Sunil
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