Syntax

sxml-match provides case-like form for pattern matching of XML nodes.

Scheme Syntax: sxml-match input-expression clause1 clause2 …

Match input-expression, an SXML tree, according to the given clauses (one or more), each consisting of a pattern and one or more expressions to be evaluated if the pattern match succeeds. Optionally, each clause within sxml-match may include a guard expression.

The pattern notation is based on that of Scheme’s syntax-rules and syntax-case macro systems. The grammar for the sxml-match syntax is given below:

match-form ::= (sxml-match input-expression
                 clause+)

clause ::= [node-pattern action-expression+]
         | [node-pattern (guard expression*) action-expression+]

node-pattern ::= literal-pattern
               | pat-var-or-cata
               | element-pattern
               | list-pattern

literal-pattern ::= string
                  | character
                  | number
                  | #t
                  | #f

attr-list-pattern ::= (@ attribute-pattern*)
                    | (@ attribute-pattern* . pat-var-or-cata)

attribute-pattern ::= (tag-symbol attr-val-pattern)

attr-val-pattern ::= literal-pattern
                   | pat-var-or-cata
                   | (pat-var-or-cata default-value-expr)

element-pattern ::= (tag-symbol attr-list-pattern?)
                  | (tag-symbol attr-list-pattern? nodeset-pattern)
                  | (tag-symbol attr-list-pattern?
                                nodeset-pattern? . pat-var-or-cata)

list-pattern ::= (list nodeset-pattern)
               | (list nodeset-pattern? . pat-var-or-cata)
               | (list)

nodeset-pattern ::= node-pattern
                  | node-pattern ...
                  | node-pattern nodeset-pattern
                  | node-pattern ... nodeset-pattern

pat-var-or-cata ::= (unquote var-symbol)
                  | (unquote [var-symbol*])
                  | (unquote [cata-expression -> var-symbol*])

Within a list or element body pattern, ellipses may appear only once, but may be followed by zero or more node patterns.

Guard expressions cannot refer to the return values of catamorphisms.

Ellipses in the output expressions must appear only in an expression context; ellipses are not allowed in a syntactic form.

The sections below illustrate specific aspects of the sxml-match pattern matcher.

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