Re: A replacement for Info

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> skribis:

>    If the XML backend didn’t already exist, I would suggest using a
>    custom sexp-based format instead, though.  That would be easier than
>    SXML for elisp, which doesn’t have tools like sxml-match.
>
> What is ‘sxml-match’ and how would a renderer use it?

Pattern matching on SXML trees:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/sxml_002dmatch.html

In my experience, it greatly simplifies handling of SXML trees.  Without
that, one has to resort to error-prone hand-written matching code, work
with XML attributes that can appear in any order, etc.

Regarding Texinfo-as-sexps, I’d recommend looking at “stexi”, now in
Guile 2.0:

  http://wingolog.org/archives/2004/07/25/literate-programming-with-guile-lib
  http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/texinfo.html

Thanks,
Ludo’.