Re: DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread Stuart Sierra
Theoretically, yes, you could build this with Monads. But I'm not the one to ask about that. :) There's also something that Rich Hickey was working on last year called "Pods" or "Cells" -- basically a new reference type that allows safe access to a mutable object. As far as I know, the design

Re: DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread K.
Could monads help me to build a pure functional Clojure interface for this while the underlying DOM manipulations would be not pure? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note tha

Re: DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread Stuart Sierra
If you want to receive a DOM object from Java, manipulate it, and then return a DOM object back to Java, without rebuilding it, you're probably stuck manipulating it through the Java DOM APIs. -Stuart Sierra clojure.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread K.
> It's not the DOM API, but take a look at Zippers as an efficient way to > manipulate tree-like structures, including XML. I can see how it could be used to walk the tree but I don't see how it could be used to modify just a few branches / leafs in the tree. Calling zip/root reconstructs the whol

Re: DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread Stuart Sierra
It's not the DOM API, but take a look at Zippers as an efficient way to manipulate tree-like structures, including XML. Luke VanderHart's Clojure Conj talk on Zippers is here: http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4503162/ -Stuart Sierra clojure.com -- You received this message because you are subscrib

DOM API for Clojure

2011-03-11 Thread K.
Hello, Is there a library to manipulate (create and modify) a XML DOM tree in Clojure? If possible with the "classic" syntax (XML tags represented as Clojure vectors.) I need to keep an instance of a DOM tree in my program and modify it and recreating the whole DOM tree every time would not be ef