Proposed: libxml2 OR expat

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 09:51:43AM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> I'm proposing EITHER OF libxml2 or Expat with this mail.
> 
> Rationale:
> XML is one of the most important technologies to have emerged in the
> last few years. It is very widely-used (not just in the enterprise, but
> also in GNOME and IIRC KDE). I strongly believe one of the core
> components of our platform must be an XML library.
> 
> However, this is a relatively complicated proposal: I do not know the
> merits of libxml2 vs libexpat. I seem to recall libexpat being smaller,
> but libxml2 enjoying far wider use.

... ah, Expat doesn't support DOM or SAX.

Between this and the wider-use thing, my personal choice would lie
towards yes for inclusion, and libxml2 over Expat.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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