shared wasabi implementation

Fabrice Colin fabrice.colin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 23:59:31 PST 2007


On 2/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/2/16, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com>:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 07:18 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > I agree - a fast reference implementation in C could be a good idea.
> > > We are going to need a sax parser though. I don't know how big the
> > > glib one is - maybe we can rip it out...
> >
> > I did not really mean to jump in here, but before you rip something out
> > of glib, consider just using it, please. There is no reason not to use
> > glib. You should be aware that GMarkup is not a full XML parser though,
> > and may miss things that you need/want.
>
> Yes, I was just tossing ideas about... But why would a c++ indexer targeting
> qt be using glib? GMarkup doesn't have namespace support afaik and that
> could be a problem (maybe not)... But I would also hate to write my own sax
> parser just for this purpose.
>
There's plenty of good, small-footprint XML toolkits out there that
may be suitable,
expat being the first one that comes to mind.

Fabrice



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