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

[John Goerzen]

On Mon April 21 2008 1:11:19 pm Don Stewart wrote:
> Galois, Inc. is pleased to announce the open source release of a suite of
> web programming libraries for Haskell!

Lots of cool stuff here!  A few questions:

>   * 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?

>   * sqlite
>         Haskell binding to sqlite3 <http://sqlite.org/>, a light, fast
>         database.
>
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/sqlite

Similar questions here regarding HDBC.  Did HDBC (and HDBC-sqlite3) not 
address some need?

>   * feed
>         Interfacing with RSS (v 0.9x, 2.x, 1.0) and Atom feeds
>
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/feed

Sweet.  Might have to refactor hpodder to use this.

>
>   * mime
>         Haskell support for working with MIME types.
>
>         http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/mime

FWIW, I have some similar but slightly different functions in MissingH.

http://software.complete.org/static/missingh/doc//MissingH/Data-MIME-Types.html

hsemail and WASH both also have some stuff in this area.  Probably not as 
nice as yours though.

-- John