Proposed: libxml2

[John J. Boyer]

Daniel,



On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:

> I'm proposing EITHER OF libxml2 or Expat with this mail.

I've used both expat and libxml2, and I vote for libxml2. the reasons are 
that it is much more comprehensive and that libxslt and libgdome2 are 
built on top of it. Also it is being very actively maintained.

John


> 
> 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.
> 
> I don't believe having two XML libraries in our platform is a good start
> at all, and am mandating this an either/or choice.
> 
> Candidate versions:
> libxml2: 2.6.x
> Expat: 1.95.8 (I don't believe this will change - they have a mammothly
>        slow release schedule)
> 
> Upstreams:
> libxml2: xmlsoft.org (http://www.xmlsoft.org)
> Expat: http://expat.sf.net
> 
> :) d
> 
> 

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