Re: Some strengths and weaknesses in Scala's XML capabilities

Arrgh wrote:

Indeed, I stumbled on http://www.kmonos.net/pub/Slit/index.en.html last
year and thought it might be interesting for an XML navigation idea I
was daydreaming about.

That's exactly the sort of thing I was talking about (but didn't know enough to come up with myself).

Arrgh wrote:

Or we could play games
with hidden mutation... Uncontended synchronization for objects that
don't escape their creating thread is getting very cheap. ;)

I'm against that approach. The immutability of scala.xml is one of it's selling points compared to other XML libraries I've used -somehow or other I've always found a way to confuse and produce errors in them, that scala.xml should be immune to.