On Mon Jan 18 06:08:05 EST 2010, climber....@gmail.com wrote: > Is this possible for UNIX philosophy to develop further? Let's say, > XML-coded trees or graphs instead of one-line strings in stdin/ > stdout.Or LISP S-expressions. New set of utilities for filtering such > streams, grep for XML trees, etc. Building environment for dataflow > programming from shell interpreter. > Any interesting papers exist on this topic?
not on xml per se. but rob did some work with structured regular expressions that sound a lot like what you describe, except there is no xml. Rob Pike, Structural regular expressions. Proceedings of the European UNIX User's Group Conference. EUUG, Helsinki, Finland. doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/structural_regexps/se.pdf - erik
