xml in fptools?

[Ashley Yakeley]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> The motivation here is to have a standard API for e.g. parsing an XML
> file.  I'm sure it would be easy to agree on some signatures like
> 
>     readXml   :: String   -> Maybe XML
>     showXml   :: XML      -> String
> 
>     fReadXml  :: FilePath -> IO XML
>     fWriteXml :: FilePath -> XML -> IO ()
> 
>     hGetXml   :: Handle   -> IO XML
>     hPutXml   :: Handle   -> XML -> IO ()

Would we also want some sort of stream API, similar to SAX?

   streamXML :: (Monad m) => m Char -> m SAXEvent

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA