[Haskell-cafe] ANN: HAppS-Data 0.9: XML, Pairs, HList, deriveAll

[Alex Jacobson]

We've refactored the happs repos and are now going to releasing 
components of HAppS as individual useful packages.  HAppS-Data is the 
first one.  Don't pull a tag, pull the most recent stuff in the repos.

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HAppS-Data v0.9: XML, Name/Value Pairs, HList, deriveAll

* toXml and fromXml transform your haskell values to and from XML.
Declare your own instances of class Xml to customize the Xml
representation.

* toPairs and fromPairs transform haskell values to and from
name-value pairs (e.g. for url-encoded data).  Pairs are converted
between xpath expressions.  Use toPairsX if you want a conversion
without the top level constructor, fromPairs can handle that as long
as your type has only one top level constructor.

* toHTMLForms to produce an HTML forms representation of your data
that can be consumed by fromPairs in a urldecoding context.  toHTMLForms
uses toPairsX for shorter input field names.

* $(deriveAll) to batch derive Default and as well as the standard
derivable without all the boring per data "deriving" declarations

* Default missing values by declaring your own instances of class Default or
have default values derived autotomatically.

* Normalize your values by declaring your own instance of class Normalize.

* Type safe easy-to-use heterogenous collections.  t1 .&. t2 .&. t3
are a heterogenous lists of values.  (HasT hlist t) is a class
constraint to that the hlist contains a particular type.  (x hlist)::t
obtains a value of type t from inside the hlist.  (u hlist v) updates
the hlist with the value v if the hlist has type.  x and u return
compile time errors if the type is not inside the hlist. fromPairs is
currently broken for hlist.

darcs get http://happs.org/HAppS/HAppS-Data