[gambit-list] Reacquainting myself
Marc Feeley
feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Sat Jun 4 18:44:57 EDT 2011
On 2011-06-04, at 4:20 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> New to Gambit, old to Scheme and Lisp (bit I've been away from
> actively using them for decades, and much has changed).
>
> I'm refamiliarising myself, taking a small project that I could write in
> several other languages in an hour, but doing it as learning project
> instead of a quickie implementation, finding out what's available
> nowadays.
>
> The project is to take some overly dictatorial HTML and liberate it.
> You know the kind of thing, take out all the excess <br>'s and  .'s,
> figure out the real structure they're hiding, and reemit it using <p>
> and <h5> and other proper tags.
>
> Now I can do all this from scratch, reading characters from ports and
> writing code to lex it and parse it and recognise idioms and such ...
> but that's so nose-to-the-grindstone.
>
> Isn't the whole point of these new Scheme systems that we can work at a
> more conceptual level?
>
> So I ask. What tools and libraries are already there to make this kind
> of task easier? Or more elaborate tasks of this kind -- because I will
> run into them later. I look in the web and find myself lost in beginner
> documentation. I guess I'm looking for links to heavier stuff.
>
> -- hendrik
If you want to parse HTML in Scheme, let me recommend htmlprag (http://www.neilvandyke.org/htmlprag/) which is very portable.
If you want to generate a lexer or parser yourself, check out Silex and LALR-SCM (Scheme equivalents of lex and yacc), which were developed at the University of Montreal by Danny Dubé and Dominique Boucher respectively (http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~dube/ and http://code.google.com/p/lalr-scm/).
Marc
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