[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Galois web libraries for Haskell released

[Don Stewart]

dave:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Aaron Tomb <atomb at galois.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Apr 22, 2008, at 6:20 AM, John Goerzen wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > >  * xml
> > > >       A simple, lightweight XML parser/generator.
> > > >
> > > >       http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/xml
> > > >
> > >
> > > Can you describe how this compares to HaXml?  Were there deficiencies in
> > > HaXml?
> > >
> >
> >  The main difference is that it's simpler. It's perhaps 10-20% the size of
> > HaXml. For a program that just has to do simple XML processing, it's
> > sometimes undesirable to have to link in a library that does a lot more than
> > you need.
> 
> It would be convenient to have a list of unsupported XML features. The
> ones I've noticed so far are
> 
> * doctypes (and all doctype-related markup)
> * processing instructions
> * notations
> 
> Comments are recognized but not preserved, so you can't round-trip a
> document containing them.
> 
> (Personally, I use namespaces more than I use any of these, which is
> why I don't use HaXml.)
> 

I've created a wiki page to start on community documentation for the
light xml library,

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/XML_Light

Feel free to add text, examples, etc there

-- Don