[cl-who-devel] Case-sensitive XML

[Osei Poku]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:16:04PM -0800, Ken Harris wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm having trouble outputting case-sensitive XML using cl-who.  The
> *downcase-tokens-p* variable claims to be the answer, but it only
> controls whether the output is all-upper-case or all-lower-case:
> 
> (setq *downcase-tokens-p* nil)
> (with-html-output-to-string (s) (:twoWords))
> => "<TWOWORDS/>"

You must quote the symbol with |symBol|. ie

(setq *downcase-tokens-p* nil)
(with-html-output-to-string (s) (:|twoWords|))
=> "<twoWords/>"

OR

=> "<twoWords></twoWords>"

> 
> (setq *downcase-tokens-p* t)
> (with-html-output-to-string (s) (:twoWords))
> => "<twowords/>"
> 
> I don't get how this is supposed to help with case-sensitive XML:
> keywords (like all symbols) are case-folded by the CL reader before
> cl-who sees them, no?  :twoWords => :TWOWORDS.  To support generation
> of XML with mixedCase tags or attributes, I would think that cl-who
> would need to allow strings where it allows only keywords now.
> 
> Or maybe I'm just completely missing something, because the question
> that prompted the creation of *downcase-tokens-p* was a camelCase
> attribute.
> 
> Can cl-who support mixedCase tags/attributes?  Or if it's as simple as
> changing (keywordp x) to (or (keywordp x) (stringp x)), would such a
> patch be well-received?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> - Ken
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Osei Poku
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