gxml 0.6.0

[Daniel Espinosa Ortiz <install-module master gnome org>]

About GXml
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GXml provides a GObject API for manipulating XML. Most functionality
is provided through libxml2. Currently, GXml provides the DOM Level 1
Core API.

News
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This new version is API/ABI incompatible with 0.4 series.

Most work has been on simplifying API for Vala programers users, using interfaces and
Gee classes, allowing to create new backends based or different from libxml2. This
work allowed to re-implement existing classes without radically modify API for existing
applications and makes room to improve performance and memory usage.

News and changes are as follow:


* Added new interfaces to simplify implementing new backends for XML reading/writting,
  containers are Gee ones.

* Renamed GXml 0.4 DOM classes to prefixing a "x", to avoid conflicts with new interfaces

* GXml DOM classes, now implement new interfaces

* GXml DOM classes now implement Gee interfaces to access directly to libxml2 structures,
  reducing extra processing and memory consumption when they are referenced from permament
  on memory GObject classes. Reimplementing most other DOM classes to implement Gee classes
  in on roadmap, to reduce memory and possibly increase performance on parsing.

* Improved XML namespaces handling

* Added new TwDocument class, as pure Vala XML tree container implementation of
  new interfaces

* Implemented a 3-5 times faster XML writer using TwDocument and libxml2 xmlTextWriter.
  A new TwDocument and xmlTextReader is on roadmap, to improve parsing performance.

* Serializable framework ported to new interfaces, allowing to use different
  backends when serialize/deserialize GObjects.

* Serializable and its implementations, has gained serialization performance improvements
  using TwDocument and better namespace handling.

* Improved documentation

* Added --enable-performance-tests, just to reduce the time required to run all
  unit tests.

New interfaces makes room to convert any GObject as a GXml.Node object, making de/serialization
more transparent and possibly better performance and memory usage reduction, by avoiding
intermediate XML trees using libxml2 or TwDocument. Another plan includes, GObject mapping to XSD.

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Version 0.4.2
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- Fixes to Vala bindings documentation for DevHelp (Daniel Espinosa)
- Preview of gtk-doc and documented GIR generation (Daniel Espinosa)



ChangeLog
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https://download.gnome.org/sources/gxml/0.6/gxml-0.6.0.changes  (83.8K)

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