Re: scheme/dsssl question

[Chris Maden <crism@xxxxxxx>]

[Norm Walsh]
> Given that I've got
> 
> (define foo "this is some text")
> 
> in my stylesheet, is it possible to write a function that will take
> "foo" (literally) as an argument and return "this is some text"?
> 
> For example:
> 
> (define (bar xyz) 
>   ...something I can't quite wrap my head around in here...
> )
> 
> such that
> 
> (bar "foo") returns "this is some text"?

Oddly for a Lisp dialect, I don't think there is a way.  I was really
expecting to find (eval) in the Standard, but it's not there.

RFE for DSSSL editors: (eval _string_) produces the same results as if
the DSSSL interpreter had encountered _string_ in the stylesheet.

Then Norm could do

(define (bar xyz)
  (eval (string-append "("
		       xyz
		       ")")))

If such a thing exists, my apologies; I didn't find it in clause 8,
nor in Henry's reference.[1]

-Chris

[1] <URL:ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/digest.htm>
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