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s-expressions vs xml

I’ve dumped some my thoughts to text. Result is a draft of a possible paper: “Towards s-expression based XPath/XSLT implementation“.

This entry was posted by olpa on Wednesday, July 26th, 2006 at 8:07 am and is filed under Generative XML. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “s-expressions vs xml”

  1. Terje Norderhaug Says:
    April 9th, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    The introduction to your essay proposes that if “Lisp languages are ideal for implementing XML standards […] Then why we don’t have an XSLT processor written in Common Lisp?

    However, the Interaction web application server has included a Common Lisp based XSLT processor for more than a decade. Interaction also implements other XML related standards in Common Lisp, and was AFAIK the first web application server to embrace XML.

  2. olpa Says:
    April 11th, 2011 at 1:39 pm

    I don’t know why xslt 1.0 was not implemented, maybe because people could transform xml with lisp itself, without less powerful xsl 1.0. As of xslt 2.0, and 2nd version of xml standards, it is not fun to work on commitee-designed bloated standards.

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