Hi David,
There is a Smalltalk XML parser, although some ports are buggy, from Indelv.com (link via http://xml.smalltalk.org) that you could play with. There is no squeak version yet? After looking at it please let me know what do you think of it?
All the best,
Peter William Lount peter@smalltalk.org http://www.smalltalk.org
---------- From: David Cramer dacramer@videon.wave.ca To: squeak@cs.uiuc.edu Subject: Re: xml.smalltalk.org and mod.smalltalk.org Date: January 28, 2000 5:38 PM
I'd be very interested in playing with a Squeak-based XML parser. I have been concerned for quite some time with the seeming lack of XML-related Smalltalk activity.
Back in October, after just attended the XML World Conference in Ottawa, I posted a message to this mailing list regarding a conversation I had had with Dave Thomas, head of Object Technology International (OTI, now an affiliate of IBM Canada), and with over 30 years of experience in the computer industry, elected in 1997 to the IBM Academy in recognition of his pioneering work on object technology. Thomas confirmed my suspicions when he said matter-of-factly that Smalltalk was inherently superior to Java for the kind of programming needed for large-scale XML data management, but that Java had industry buy-in regardless of its immaturity and shortcomings. Unfortunately, he suggested it might take a couple of years for the realization to hit.
I have a strong instinctive feeling that the Squeak community can play a pivotal role in the confluence of markup language technologies and Smalltalk programming, to everyone's benefit. I've been learning Smalltalk without a specific goal. An XML-related project in Smalltalk for me would be something I could really devote some time to.
Good luck with InDelv!
Regards,
David
At 2:09 PM -0800 1/28/00, Duane Maxwell wrote:
Incidentally, we've ported the "open source" InDelv XML parser http://www.indelv.com , but we're not quite sure what to do with it. It's based a lot on the Java/DOM implementation and stresses portability across Smalltalks, thus not particularly Squeaky, but it works. If anyone from Indelv is lurking, please contact me so we can do what it takes to make it available in a manner consistent with the Indelv and Squeak licenses.
The toy XML parser I wrote earlier is much farther along now, and fits
more
in the Squeaky way of thinking, so it might make a suitable alternative. Hopefully I can get it out for people to play with soon.
Regards -
-- Duane
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