Re: XML idea

[Helge Hess]

On 06.01.2004, at 23:40, Alex Perez wrote:
> The official word, AFAIK, is that XML stuff in general is to be kept 
> out
> of base, except on an OPTIONAL basis, which is how it is now. It's not
> just GSXML.

This is starting to get funny, but please give a reference (mail 
archive or webpage) where something like this was being said. 
NSXMLParser is very fresh and this thread is the first thing I have 
seen where it is being discussed.

> It could be put there, but it would only be a class that worked if
> --with-xml or whatever were used, same as how GSXML works now.

Well, it should just detect whether libxml2 or expat is installed and 
if not disable NSXMLParser. I think this is how it works with GSXML 
right now and which is fine.
No one said that new stuff should break old stuff ;-)

On the other side it could be implemented in a more generic way, like 
the SAX driver bundles in SaxObjC, but I wonder whether this is worth 
the effort just for NSXMLParser, I guess not (and libxml2 is available 
on almost any platform anyway).

Greets,
  Helge
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