Re: 70 inactive GNU packages to be decommis ?

[Nala Ginrut]

Hi Jean!
Nowadays there're several mature ways for that purpose, that's why XmlAT
is not continued and published.
Here're some alternatives:
* SXML module in Guile.
* guile-json
* GNU Artanis (SXML/CSV/JSON, maybe adding protobuf next step)

I'm going to drop GNU XmlAT, and I may consider to replace with my new
project gLua which is a Lua transpiler implemented on Guile. But I
need some time to polish it first.

So please forget about GNU XmlAT anymore. ;-)

Best regards.

Jean Louis writes:

> On September 4, 2019 6:08:50 AM UTC, Nala Ginrut <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>I'm the author and maintainer of GNU XmlAT, I've been considering
>>obsolete it for years. And I'd like to add other new meaningful project
>>to
>>GNU.
>>
>>Here's a brief reason.
>>XmlAT was used to convert XML to s-expr as an intermediate
>>presentation for multiple cases. And it can be output to other
>>formats. However, it's a bit outdated, because nowadays the industry
>>use
>>JSON for that case, and it works well.
>>
>>So we don't need GNU XmlAT anymore. I would polish my other projects
>>and
>>offer some to replact GNU XmlAT.
>
> Thanks Nala,
>
> There is no source for XmlAT anywhere published. I am using only Lisp and 
> sometimes Scheme, such software could be of use in website revision systems, 
> and also in conversion of HTML to SEXPR when one wish to provide structured 
> document with backlinks with ability to finely grained link to specific 
> paragraphs.
>
> But without sources of not even possible to try it out.
>
> Jean


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