[gst-devel] Slimming

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:05:02PM -0700, Erik Walthinsen wrote:
> 4) A lesser version of 3) would be to try to make use of the glib-2.0 XML
> features, which are quite a bit smaller (and less featureful) than
> libxml2.  Current problem is that there is no support for *writing* XML
> files.  I hope this can be solved with the addition of such code to
> glib-2.0, but the API freeze is in 10 days, so someone would have to work
> very fast to pull that off.

Huh?

Generating XML is much easier than parsing it.  When i wrote an XML
generator in perl, i needed only about 40 lines of generic code to
complement to the application specific stuff.