Re: XML for GJS

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Nikita Churaev <lamefun x0r gmail com> wrote:
> Without proper XML support, a programming platform becomes outright
> useless for PEOPLE, since XML is now the integral part of Web 3.0 and
> everything else. It's a grave problem for GJS, since now it has no XML
> support whatsoever. I want to try to do something about this.

Currently, there's E4X, which is used in the Shell, but it's
deprecated. Mozilla and Google are developing a new XML Parser API for
JavaScript, and we'll use that when it's available.

> * Make a manual binding, like we do for cairo.
> * Make a GObject wrapper over libxml2 (there's already GXml, but it
> requires outdated Vala version, maybe port to C not to chase Vala?).
> * Make a new XML parser that is based entirely on GLib and GObject.
>
> The latter two have a bonus that if new features are added, they'll
> become immediately available for all languages that GNOME supports. What
> is the best option?
>
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  Jasper