Re: What can I do to help?

[Rob Browning]

Tom Lord <address@hidden> writes:

> How about, instead of adding to the size of guile and the number of
> primitive types, a filter program that translates between XML and
> s-expressions?

You won't get any argument from me.

I actually started work on something similar back when gnucash was
planning to switch to a text file format, but I didn't have time to
try anything other than a fairly simple solution in scheme, and for
large files, guile wasn't fast enough.  As a result, gnucash ended up
using libxml.

I still think this is an excellent approach to consider.

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Rob Browning
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