[REBOL] Re: markup datatype
From: greggirwin:mindspring at: 3-Nov-2003 9:05
Hi Brett,
BH> From what I see his example treats the xml strings as a tree of nodes and
BH> attibutes with fairly simple operations applied to the trees. I would expect
BH> it to be feasible and not too difficult to program as a dialect in REBOL.
BH> The language part would be the easy bit for REBOL, the choice of underlying
BH> representation supporting flexible and fast operations is the the trickier
BH> part - had already been thinking about it. ;-)
I agree. The issue I see is one of completeness. It's easy to look at
a simple example and have it make sense, but when you start looking at
real, complex, documents and the whole depth and breadth of XML and
such, you could end up with a real mess from a specification point of
view. The first steps shouldn't be hard though. Just deal with basic,
well-formed, XML and ignore the rest. :)
-- Gregg
