Re: [Chicken-users] parameter limit

[Kon Lovett]

On May 15, 2007, at 7:54 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:17:57AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote:
> > sxml-tools uses the rather questionable idiom of "(apply append"
> > and "(apply string-append" at various places, which (I believe) is
> > repsonsible for the argument limit error.
> >
> > I have uploaded a new version (1.2) that uses "concatenate" and
> > "string-concatenate", respectively and seems to pass the test-suites.
> >
> > Please give it a try (with an unmodified chicken), since raising the
> > argument limit not really eliminates the problem (just pospones it).
>
> Sorry to be getting back so late on this.  I've rebuilt an unmodified
> chicken (leaving the parameter limit at 1000), and it seems to work
> just fine with version 1.2 of sxml-tools.  Thanks, Felix!
>
> While we're on the subject of XML processing . . .
>
> I notice that sxml-tools doesn't implement the sxml:document procedure
> (or at least, I can't find it in any of the XML-related packages).
> This seems like a very useful function, because it can handle either
> files or URIs.
>
> Is there anything to prevent me from just patching this code in?

Not that I know of. But adding code from a later version to an  
earlier version can open a cascade of dependencies.

> http://modis.ispras.ru/Lizorkin/Apidoc/xlink.html#codefunc35033
>
> And if so, would it be useful to send such a patch to the maintainer
> of the sxml-tools package?

Hmm, is there a maintainer? (I doubt Zbigniew thinks of himself that  
way.) If you provide a patch someone will apply it to the sxml-tools  
egg.

> Thanks again.
>
> Steve

I am working on (more off than on) a Chicken port of the "current"  
SSAX-SXML project (5.1) but do not wait up for it.

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