syntax doesn't matter, I think. Everything can be re-defined in Lisp style if needed. Yes, you're right. You might be interested in this: http://www.pmsf.de/r

syntax doesn't matter, I think. Everything can be re-defined in Lisp style if needed. Yes, you're right. You might be interested in this: http://www.pmsf.de/resources/lisp/expat.html http://www.pmsf.de/resources/lisp/expat.html If you use Mai's modified expat, you can convert any feed into s-expressions, preserving all attributes and namespaces. Here's a quick example. This is the beginning of the xml for the news.yc feed: <rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Startup News</title><link>http://news.ycombinator.com</link><description>The http://news.ycombinator.com</link><description&#... most interesting startup-related links, as determined by readers.</description><item><title>PG: If starting viaweb today, would you use lisp?</title><link>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905</link><comments>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905</comments></item&#62 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905</link>&#60...; And here's the expat-parsed, s-expression: (("rss" "version" "2.0")(("channel")(("title")"Startup News")(("link")"http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com")(("description")"The most interesting startup-related links, as determined by readers.")(("item")(("title")"PG: If starting viaweb today, would you use lisp?")(("link")"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905")(("comments")"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36905"))