Re: What to do in order to make the gnome development platform rock.

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:13:38PM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
> > > org.gnome.xml                           - libxml (if it makes sence to
> > > bind)
> > 
> > It does, except not in this way. The way that would make sense to have a
> > binding for libxml/libxslt would be a wrapper that would allow it to be
> > used as a "standard" sax/dom parser a'la xerces/xalan. If you can't do
> > that, there is no point in doing the binding. 
> 
> yes there is because lib2xml/libxslt API is a very large superset of what's
> available with SAX/DOM. Xalan implements a number of extensions too, they
> didn't restrict them to those API. And the Java people seems to anyway try
> to push for yet one more Java XML tree interface. I really don't see why 
> people should not write Java wrappers for libxml/libxslt. And as maintainer
> I tell they can go ahead, I'm just not personally interested in the effort.
> 

I think there is a difference between 'would allow it to be used' and
'forces it to be used'. it would be IMVHO a pity if the wrapping didn't
support the "standard" interfaces or wasn't uasable with them.

> Daniel
> 
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	Sander

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