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ssax

Description

Oleg Kiselyov's XML parser.

Author

Oleg Kiselyov, with some Chicken-specific modifications by Kirill Lisovsky. Minor changes by felix winkelmann to make the code suitable as an extension library.

Requirements

None

Download

ssax.egg

Documentation

See the official SSAX homepage for comprehensive documentation.

The following procedures are exported:

<procedure>ssax:warn </procedure> <procedure>ssax:skip-pi </procedure> <procedure>attlist-fold</procedure> <procedure>ssax:prefix-xml </procedure> <procedure>ssax:complete-start-tag </procedure> <procedure>ssax:skip-s </procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-markup-token</procedure> <procedure>ssax:assert-token </procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-char-data </procedure> <procedure>ssax:skip-internal-dtd </procedure> <procedure>ssax:s-chars </procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-qname</procedure> <procedure>ssax:ncname-starting-char? </procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-external-id </procedure> <procedure>ssax:scan-misc</procedure> <procedure>assert-cur-char</procedure> <procedure>ssax:handle-parsed-entity </procedure> <procedure>ssax:complete-start-tag </procedure> <procedure>xml-token-head </procedure> <procedure>xml-token-kind</procedure> <procedure>ssax:uri-string→symbol </procedure> <procedure>string-whitespace? </procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-pi-body-as-string</procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-ncname</procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-cdata-body</procedure> <procedure>ssax:read-attributes</procedure> <procedure>name-compare</procedure> <procedure>ssax:resolve-name</procedure> <procedure>SSAX:XML→SXML</procedure> <procedure>parser-error </procedure>

ssax:warn and parse-error are implemented.

The following macros are available:

<macro>let-values*</macro> <macro>SSAX:make-pi-parser</macro> <macro>SSAX:make-elem-parser</macro> <macro>SSAX:make-parser</macro>

Unicode compatibility

SSAX:XML->SXML will convert numeric entities to UTF-8 byte sequences. It does not depend on the utf8 egg for this.

Otherwise, UTF-8 operation is not well tested.

Changelog

License

Public Domain