Richard Jones wrote:
> I downloaded the tarball and looked at
> the examples and I can't tell: can XStream transform an XML file into
> something else?
> 
> In particular we have a requirement to convert a huge XML file into
> tabular CSV data on the fly (while the XML is being downloaded).  The
> XML file just consists of a very large number of <row>...</row>
> records.

That's possible with XStream: text is just a special case of XML.
For instance, the following script extracts the stream of text from the
input XML stream.

main(_[x1] x2) -> concat(main(x1),main(x2))
main(%s x) -> %s main(x)
main(()) -> ()

-- Alain