Yah man, the difficulty I'm finding is in writing the compiler. As Larry say's programs that write programs are happy programs and I like that concept a lot. It really doesn't matter how long the compiler takes to run as it will only be run once per source code update.

I think I've also found a much faster way to parse the documents which I'm also working on.

I would like to end up with an aXML > PSGI compiler such that even the noobiest of nooby noobs who ever did any noobying around a Perl script can use it to write simple declarative apps and enjoy immense performance out of the box. It might be a while before that happens, and something else might come along in the meantime but yeh that's where this seems to be going atm.