Re: [xml] xmlWriter

[Jean Senellart <senellart systran fr>]

Hi, for you feeling less alone. I have played a bit with your first version and added few functions (for instance it seemed to me that the main application of this sax xmlwriter was to directly write to file avoiding memory intermediary storage, and that gives the xmlNewTextWriterFile function) do some C portability :!), and add few comments

But as far as I can see, most of the work has already be done in tree.c dump functions (btw, ideally those function should themselves eventually use those xmlwriter functions), you have made the main frame and what need to be done needs of course some work, but will be by adapting those functions.

what I think is important concerning such a module is not necessarily the completeness (since nothing was existing before and at the current stage already answers to some needs - completeness can come with further needs and with the time ) but to reach some tested, clean and correct first version 

now for achieving this first stage - on my side, I would vote for patches or I can help maintaining API/test file (not sure though what a testsuite will look like however)

regards,
Jean

Jeroen Cranendonk writes:
 > From: "Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld sympatico ca>
 > To: "Jeroen Cranendonk" <j cranendonk emaxx nl>
 > > Jeroen Cranendonk wrote:
 > > > I'm still working on the xmlwriter I've mentioned in earlier mails :)
 > > > though I notice I lack the resources to do a proper job on it ;)
 > > >
 > > > In the hopes of getting other people interested to contribute to it I'd
 > like
 > > > to stick it on sourceforge.
 > >
 > > Is this really worth the efford ? Isn't the aim to produce one, may be two
 > > files, and once the API is reasonably complete, stable, and correct,
 > convince
 > > Daniel to integrate it into libxml2 ?
 > >
 > > Couldn't you just keep the file(s) in a publicly visible place, as you
 > have
 > > done before, and then apply patches whenever they come in. I can't imagine
 > > that there will be that many patches before the API is complete, but may
 > be
 > > I'm underestimating the job.
 > >
 > > Regards,
 > > Stefan
 > 
 > 2 files, and the effort isn't that big, I've seen similary small projects on
 > sourceforge, like the c++ wrapper to libxml :)
 > I'm not saying you're not right tho, that's why I mentioned it on the
 > mailinglist first ;)
 > 
 > In itself the thing isn't that small either tho really, the basics are
 > fairly simple, but there's a lot of things that can be messed up,
 > and there's a lot of bits that should be added on the longer run, I'm
 > thinking of proper namespace and encoding stuff for example, or entity
 > related things. Those can add a decent bit of complexity :)
 > 
 > One problem is that I'm rather busy nowadays, and I can already see myself
 > not getting much further with it then I am now,
 > I started on it basicly cause I'd like to have it for another project which
 > takes the beef of my free time too :) I could've kept
 > it really simple and only within that project, but basicly I jsut think it's
 > a really helpfull addition that'd actually benefit libxml
 > if it'd be properly implemented , so I'm trying to put it there :)
 > 
 > Now the advantage of sourceforge is to attract some attention, but also to
 > give a place people could put questions or hints and
 > so for the component, and an easier and not dependent on my server place to
 > get hte recent files,
 > and a CVS archive ofcourse, CVS is life for opensource projects :) There is
 > nothing quite as helpfull as being able to
 > see back into the history of a component and find out what was changed and
 > why, when you're working on extending it :)
 > 
 > Still, you might be right too, I'd still like to see it  under cvs somewhere
 > and in a public place rather then my own server tho :)
 > Atleast if I get run over by something someone else could finish it easier
 > too then ;)
 > 
 > Anyways :)
 > 
 > thats how I think about it tonight ;)
 > 
 > you might be right, I'd like to hear other people too :)
 > 
 >     thanks and greetings,
 >         Jeroen Cranendonk
 > 
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