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It's impressive that wxpath does the DSL as an extension of XPath syntax. I hadn't quite thought of it that way. I routinely used a mix of XPath and arbitrary
by neilv 9mo ago
It's impressive that wxpath does the DSL as an extension of XPath syntax. I hadn't quite thought of it that way.
I routinely used a mix of XPath and arbitrary code heavily for Web scraping (as implied in the intro for "https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-parsing/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-parsing/").
Then I made some DSLs for doing some of the common scraping coding patterns more concisely and declaratively, but the DSLs ended up in a Lisp-y syntax, not looking like XPath.
- rodricios 9mo agoMaking wxpath as an extension to the XPath DSL was a key goal of mine. The hard part was ensuring the syntax looked and felt as XPath-y as possible. Open to any feedback wrt to the syntax and semantics!