Re: [xml] Re: [xslt] Re: libxslt effects on _private member of libxml structures

[Helge Hess <helge hess skyrix com>]

Sean McGuire wrote:
> So my dirty little secret is that another reason I want to keep the void 
> *_private first is that you can use it as an isa pointer for Objective 
> C, and then treat all the libxml data structures like Objective C 
> objects.  :)

Wow, excellent idea ! :-)

But note that this won't work gstep-base and libFoundation which usually 
keep the retain count in front of isa (&isa-4).

If you are faking the libxml2 structures as Objective-C objects, how are 
you dealing with the string values. Did you also invent some clever 
(=fast) mechanism for converting libxml UTF-8 to NSString (eg a 
specialized NSString subclass) ?
Is your work available ?

Maybe you can/want-to help making my libxml SAX-driver faster ;-), 
consider taking a look at:
  http://freshmeat.net/projects/skyrix-xml/

regards,
  Helge