[gst-devel] xml api deprecations (was: Re: long pauses during rtsp playback)

[Tim-Philipp Müller]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 00:08 -0400, Gruenke, Matt wrote:

> > XML dumping could be added back, but then we should simply printf
> > the xml to avoid a xml dependency.
> 
> Are you saying you'd expect to accept a patch that re-enable XML duping,
> it it doesn't re-add any previous XML library dependencies?

Definitely no libxml dependency again, we want to get rid of that.

I don't entirely understand why parsing an xml dump of a pipeline is so
much easier than iterating the pipeline and extracting or serialising
whatever info you need yourself though.

Cheers 
 -Tim