[Fontconfig] expat -> libxml2 ?

[John Ellson]

Keith Packard wrote:

>Around 17 o'clock on May 4, John Ellson wrote:
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>>Are there any plans or thoughts about migrating fontconfig from expat to 
>>libxml2?
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>I looked at doing that with the SAX interfaces in libxml2 but didn't get 
>very far as those are a long ways from the expat API.  I would like to 
>retain the ability to build against expat as that library is a lot smaller 
>and more targeted than libxml2.
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>If anyone has the interest, it shouldn't be a huge job.  I do caution that 
>fontconfig tends to extend the configuration language on a regular basis, 
>hence any changes which would entail duplicate maintenance would be less 
>desirable.
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>-keith
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Does fontconfig work today on MacOS and Windows?

I've been told that expat is not in the MacOS distribution, but that 
libxml2 is?   (possible pro libxml2 issue)


John