Re: PROPOSAL: Evolution for GNOME 2.6

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:44:15PM -0500, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 05:53, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:40:32AM -0500, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> > > > It's long been on my "user-wishlist" to get rid of one or the other of
> > > > GtkHTML2 or GtkHTML (or both) in favor of Gecko (well, kind of, I've
> > > > always liked the GtkHTML2 code myself, but having 3 HTML libs in the
> > > > platform is bordering on ridiculous).  Having mozilla in the
> > > > desktop/developer platform creates a lot more duplication than just the
> > > > HTML renderer, however.  Off the top of my head it means we have 2 of:
> > > > 
> > > >       * XSLT library (libxslt) -- not sure if this is in the platform or
> > > >         not
> > > 
> > > Yeah it's in the platform. Though the public api is very small and
> > > probably not very complete.
> > 
> >    WHAT ? What is your problem there  ? What do you need you don't
> > have ? Libxslt reuses libxml2 for all XML related operations (parsing,
> > tree, etc ...). If you think that API is not complete enough that 
> > will be an interesting viewpoint !
> > 
> >    Please stop the joke here, evolution didn't reuse libxml2 HTML tree
> > support for edition way back in 2000 "because they already had running
> > code and libxml2 tree model was too "bloated"". Now 3 years laters
> > they are still in search of another replacement for that code. Don't
> > do that mistake again. 
> 
> Daniel, you misunderstood me. I was exactling saying that _mozilla_ XSLT
> implementation is probably not complete ... 

  oh, well mozilla XSLT is limited in the sense that it's targetted to
mozilla. Some part of the spec they don't need or can't implement exists.

> (I thought Shamhms was referring to mozilla XSLT when saying "not sure
> if this is in the platform" because I doubt he'd not know that libxslt
> is in the GNOME platform)

  Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding :-)

Daniel

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