Re: Word Processors

[Daniel Veillard <Daniel Veillard w3 org>]

Quoting John R Sheets (dusk@smsi-roman.com):
> Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> > 
> > Daniel Villard has written the gnome-xml library that provides the
> > gnome project with XML file manipulation.  The code is currently used
> > to load and save the Gnumeric Spreadsheet contents.
> 
> What's the current state of the gnome-xml library?  Is it far
> enough along to start using it in applications?  How stable? 
> Full or partial implementation?

  Nearly complete implementation of the XML 1.0 specification [1].
Support new and old namespace [2] proposals. Is in use for the RPM metadata
project [3] for a couple of months without problems (handle about 150 MBytes
of XML/RDF files everyday).
  Things to improve are:
    - XML entity support
    - Language encoding
    - APIs, there is currently a tree interface, and a basic
      SAX [4] like interface to be completed
    - Add DOM interfaces [5]
    - etc ...

Stability of the code should be Ok. Stability of the interfaces is not
guarantee however (but more adding than changes/removals).
  Work in progress, but usable and in use already,

Daniel

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-names
[3] http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/mirroring.html
[4] http://www.microstar.com/XML/SAX/
[5] http://www.w3.org/DOM/

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