title: Working with http requests and xml in common lisp
body: <p>I'm learning common lisp at the moment and would now like to do my first steps working with "real" data. I would like to retrieve some xml via http and process that data. Searching the web, I was not able to find a simple "default" way of working with http and xml in lisp!? As lisp is said to be used for commercial applications too, I wonder if everybody is writing their own http clients and xml parsers!?</p>
  
  <p>Could some lisp guru give me some starting points about how to connect lisp to the web, i.e. doing http requests and working with xml?</p>