Re: Texinfo XML support in Emacs Info browser

[Juri Linkov]

> How about fixing xml-parse-file so that it can be "permissive"?
> It seems rather strange to use regexps when something was developed
> specifically to parse XML files.  Not that it's my call.

I like xml-parse-file approach, but I doubt that xml-parse-file can be fixed to
parse non-well-formed XML.

After fixing bugs in makeinfo we can achieve the state when Texinfo XML
output of makeinfo is well-formed, so we could completely rely on
correctness of its output, and use xml-parse-file.

Using XML structures from xml-parse-file is very different approach from using
text-based Info files and poses many interesting problems. For example,
how to search manuals for a regexp.  One solution is to traverse the XML tree
and to match its text elements.  But what to do with text split between 
different
XML elements?  Another solution is to search a regexp in the rendered text
of all nodes.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/