lisp to xml conversion tools?

[Mike Jackson]

Hi,
I would need to convert a lisp type file to xml. Are there any tools available for this purpose, before I start writing my own in perl ?

The original file format looks like this (very simplified example):

(foo "bar"
(foo1 "something"
(something "bar")
(bar "else")
)
(foo2 "something else")
(foo3 "yet another something")
)

Would you be so kind as to also reply to my email address?

Thanks!
Mike

 

[Andy Dingley]

I would need to convert a lisp type file to xml. Are there any tools available for this purpose, before I start writing my own in perl ?

I've seen this done in DSSSL. If you're an SGML expert, you can represent lisp syntax as SGML (SGML doesn't always have to use angle brackets). You can then use DSSSL (which bears a similar relationship to SGML as XSLT does to XML) to transform it.

However SGML / DSSSL experts are thin on the ground (there are only three, and one of them keeps babbling about the Schleswig Holstein Question).

So I'd go straight to doing it with Perl. You can either build a real parser (lex & yacc territory) or you can do it _very_ quickly by assuming that all input is syntactically valid lisp and doing simple token replacements.

 

[Oleg Dulin]

Why write one in Perl when this is trivial in Lisp itself ?

Oleg

 

[Andy Dingley]

Why write one in Perl when this is trivial in Lisp itself ?

If one knew enough lisp to do this, would you want to convert from it?

 

[Oleg Dulin]

Why write one in Perl when this is trivial in Lisp itself ?

If one knew enough lisp to do this, would you want to convert from it?

Only if someone paid me handsomely to make my LISP readable to them.

Oleg