a new port of oleg's ssax xml parser to plt

["Neil W. Van Dyke" <nwv@neilvandyke.org>]

The tests seem to run OK, but I haven't yet used it in my own code.

    http://www.neilvandyke.org/ssax-plt/

    http://www.neilvandyke.org/ssax-plt/ssax-plt-20020328.tar.gz

Neil

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The `ssax' collection is a version of Oleg Kiselyov's SSAX XML parsing
framework that has been ported to PLT Scheme (MzScheme, DrScheme) version 200
and packaged as PLT modules.  This collection is *not* a part of PLT Scheme,
and is installed separately.

[...]

    For this port, we have attempted to minimize the changes to both the SSAX
    source files and the presented API, but a few changes were necessary, or
    seemed especially appropriate for the PLT port.

    As a reference to the official SSAX, an unmodified copy of the official
    SSAX directory tree is included in this collection under the subdirectory
    "official".  The CVS/RCS keyword expansions in files under "official" are
    verbatim from the official SSAX CVS repository (which is accessible as
    ":pserver:anonymous@cvs.ssax.sourceforge.net:2401/cvsroot/ssax").

    Modified versions of the SSAX source files appear in the top level of the
    `ssax' collection directory.  The file names of modified files are
    lower-case, and use the file name extension ".ss" rather than ".scm".
    Modifications are documented within the source files themselves using
    comments that begin with the string "[ssax-plt]".

    Once the `ssax' collection is installed, SSAX is available as a module that
    can be imported with:

        (require (lib "ssax.ss" "ssax"))

    One change this port makes to the SSAX API is that you should *not* define
    the `parser-error' procedure directly.  Instead, `parser-error' is defined
    as a procedure that applies its arguments to the value of the
    `parse-error-param' parameter (see "Parameter Utilities" in "PLT MzScheme:
    Language Manual").  The parameter has a default value of a simple
    error-reporting procedure, `parse-error-default'.
    
    Similarly, instead of defining `SSAX:warn' directly, you should set the
    `SSAX:warn-param' parameter, the default of which is `SSAX:warn-default'.

    Future versions of the `ssax' collection will add an `info.ss' file, move
    some of the module files to beneath "private/", add units and signatures,
    etc.

[...]

    SSAX is the work of Oleg Kiselyov.  His main Web page on SSAX is
    http://pobox.com/~oleg/ftp/Scheme/xml.html , and the SourceForge page for
    SSAX is http://ssax.sourceforge.net/ .

    This port to PLT Scheme was done by Neil W. Van Dyke <nwv@neilvandyke.org>.
    PLEASE REPORT BUGS WITH THIS PORT TO NEIL, rather than to Oleg Kiselyov
    (unless you have reproduced your bug with the official SSAX, of course).
    The latest version can be found at: http://www.neilvandyke.org/ssax-plt/

    SSAX has previously been ported to numerous Scheme dialects by Kirill
    Lisovsky <lisovsky@acm.org>.  This port in fact uses a definition of
    `let-values*' from Lisovsky's earlier port of SSAX to a version of PLT.
    Lisovsky's SSAX ports can be found at: http://pair.com/lisovsky/sxml/ssax/

[...]

    Note: Release versions of the `ssax' collection are identified by date
    rather than by a version number, to avoid confusion with the version
    numbers of SSAX.

    28-Mar-2002
        First release.  Quality of the port/packaging should be considered
        alpha.  Based on the latest SSAX file versions in SourceForge CVS as of
        this date, since I could not find labels for the file versions that
        made up SSAX release 4.9.  Feedback to nwv@neilvandyke.org appreciated.

[...]

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-- 
                                                        Neil W. Van Dyke
                                             http://www.neilvandyke.org/