BZLIB/XML.plt - An XML Utility for Xexpr and SXML

BZLIB/XML.plt is now available via PLANET, it provides the following utilities to help with XML manipulation:

• convert to/from xexpr to sxml
• reading sxml/xexpr from html or xml sources
• managing html and xml enities

Installation

(require (planet bzlib/xml)) 

Xexpr and SXML

Although Xexpr is the default xml representation in PLT Scheme (and the web-server), it lacks the toolkits that SXML enjoys. bzlib/xml helps by providing conversion functions to convert between sxml and xexpr:

;; convert from xexpr to sxml 
(xexpr->sxml `(p ((class "default")) "an xexpr instance"))
;; => `(p (@ (class "default")) "an xexpr instance") 

; convert from sxml to xexpr 
(sxml->xexpr `(p (@ (class "default")) "an xexpr instance"))
;; => `(p ((class "default")) "an xexpr instance") 

Converting from xexpr to sxml will allow you to use the facilities such as sxpath, ssax, and sxml-match with xexpr, and converting from sxml to xexpr will allow you to feed sxml into web-server for to generate output based on sxml.

Reading and Writing Xexpr/SXML

bzlib/xml provides read-xexpr and read-sxml to simplify the conversion from html sources to either xexpr or sxml: