[XML-SIG] Javascript

[Andrew Kuchling]

Jack Jansen writes:
>Is anyone here familiar with Javascript? How difficult would a
>javascript interpreter in Python (or a javascript->python converter) be?

	Someone here at CNRI once thought of doing this; however, I
can't remember who, and everyone seems to be in a meeting at the
moment.

	If I remember rightly, he planned to write a parser for the
JavaScript, and compile it to Python bytecodes that could then be
executed.  I think he may have gotten the parser done, but I'm not
sure; perhaps it was purely a blue-sky project. :)  But that seems
like a workable approach; JavaScript is fairly simple, and should be a 
subset of Python's capabilities, once you've written some adapter
objects that mimic the behaviour of JS data types.  

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