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SXML is a native representation of XML in terms of standard Scheme data types: lists, symbols, and strings. For example, the simple XML fragment:
<parrot type="African Grey"><name>Alfie</name></parrot>
may be represented with the following SXML:
(parrot (@ (type "African Grey")) (name "Alfie"))
SXML is very general, and is capable of representing all of XML. Formally, this means that SXML is a conforming implementation of the http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/ standard.
Guile includes several facilities for working with XML and SXML: parsers, serializers, and transformers.
| • SXML Overview | XML, as it was meant to be | |
| • Reading and Writing XML | Convenient XML parsing and serializing | |
| • SSAX | Custom functional-style XML parsers | |
| • Transforming SXML | Munging SXML with pre-post-order
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| • SXML Tree Fold | Fold-based SXML transformations | |
| • SXPath | XPath for SXML | |
| • sxml ssax input-parse | The SSAX tokenizer, optimized for Guile | |
| • sxml apply-templates | A more XSLT-like approach to SXML transformations |