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+This is an index of all major changes from the original at (https://gitlab.com/NalaGinrut/guile-csv)/
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+ - Added a csv->sxml procedure
+ - Added an optional argument #:record-sym to both (csv->sxml) and (csv->xml)
+ - Rewrote the Makefile to install to the site directory
+ - Added a pre-compile step to `make install` to be friendly-er to multi-user setups and REPL users