From: Jenia
Subject: Mapping s-exspressions to XML
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Message-ID: <1176217703.745080.271440@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
Hello!
I'm interesting in relations beetwen Scheme and XML technologies. Now
I do a small research in area "mapping between s-expressions and XML".
I know about SXML and it's approach, but SXML is mainly mapping from
XML to s-expressions. SXML is well known technology technology for
those who is interested in XML and Scheme. But I don't know about
anything about mapping from s-expressions to XML. It is obviously,
that not each s-expression can be mapped in some XML (for SXPath). Do
you know about something approach to map any s-exspression to XML?

From: Szymon
Subject: Re: Mapping s-exspressions to XML
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Jenia wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm interesting in relations beetwen Scheme and XML technologies.

Afair, this group is (mainly) about Common Lisp, not Scheme.

> Now
> I do a small research in area "mapping between s-expressions and XML".
> I know about SXML and it's approach, but SXML is mainly mapping from
> XML to s-expressions. SXML is well known technology technology for
> those who is interested in XML and Scheme. But I don't know about
> anything about mapping from s-expressions to XML. It is obviously,
> that not each s-expression can be mapped in some XML (for SXPath). Do
> you know about something approach to map any s-exspression to XML?

I have only basic knowledge in area of markup languages.
But I think XML is too restricted, (afaik) you cannot
express circurality literally.

Examples (its about sexps not xml) :

http://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/msg03504.html

http://bc.tech.coop/blog/051228.html

Regards, Szymon.
From: Frank Buss
Subject: Re: Mapping s-exspressions to XML
Date: 
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Jenia wrote:

> Do you know about something approach to map any s-exspression to XML?

Yes, no problem :-)

<your_xml>
<![CDATA[
(your (arbitrary (s-expression)))
]]>
</your_xml>

-- 
Frank Buss, ยทยท@frank-buss.de
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de