Re: XML for GJS

[Nikita Churaev <lamefun x0r gmail com>]

Is DOMParser that API? Do they plan to add standalone one into
SpiderMonkey? Will the next SpiderMonkey release still have E4X?

On Sat, 2012-10-06 at 12:05 -0300, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> 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 requires outdated Vala version, maybe port to C not to chase Vala?).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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