Re: [Vala] Announce: Acme.Xml 0.1.0, wrapper for libxml2's xmlTextReader/xmlTextWriter API

[Simon Kågedal Reimer <skagedal gmail com>]

Hi Daniel and others!

That sounds great, I would love to incorporate my work into GXml
eventually if you'd like that. I think for the time being it will be
easiest to continue work in my repository, until I have something that
is reasonably solid and tested. I'm working on this in the few hours
of spare time I can find, so progress is rather slow...

I will definitely have a closer look at GXml soon. Last I tried to
compile it I think I had the wrong Vala version.

I've had some problems with libxml2's XmlTextWriter, it seems to me to
be a bit buggy, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'll let you know
when I have something works. If it's ok, it would be nice if I can use
this mailing list for issues concering what is currently known as
"Acme" (silly wordplay on ECMA, if you were wondering :) )

I've also considered not using libxml2 for at least some parts. The
XmlWriter would not be too difficult to rewrite in Vala. This would
make things a little more manageable. I've also peeked in the Mono
sources, they have an implementation of this that one could try
porting from C# to Vala.

By the way, is this list brand new or are the archives not working correctly?


Regards,
Simon Kågedal Reimer

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daniel Espinosa <esodan gmail com> wrote:
> I think this is a great opportunity to work together, I mean GXml and Acme.
>
> First all I think this work should use same namespace than GXml.
>
> Second I would like to use your work on Serialization, my actual work on
> that is located in serialization branch at GXml repository, but use DOM and
> I started to think that is better to use xmlTextReader and Writer for better
> performane on large documents.
>
> I need to know if I can share my work to you to test the concept.
>
> Hello,
>
> I started working on a wrapper for libxml's xmlTextReader and
> xmlTextWriter API:s for simple "pull"-style reading and writing of
> XML. Benifits against using libxml directly include, if/when things
> are working correctly:
>
>  - Memory-managed GObject based classes
>  - Reading and writing with GIO streams
>  - Error reporting through GError
>  - Slightly more similar to the ECMA .NET API;s on which this is based
>  - Readable documentation
>
> Regarding the last point - I've copied some documentation from the
> DotGNU project, which I think comes directly from the ECMA spec. As
> far as I can understand it is freely usable. A big TODO point remains
> in checking that the behavior and the doc actually correspond...
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to get this out since I would love to hear some
> thoughts on the API and also the implementation, if anyone is
> interested. I'm aware there is another project that wraps libxml in
> Vala/GObject, GXml - that works at the DOM level so they are really
> differrent things for different use cases, I think (although it would
> be great if they worked well together).
>
> Links for downloading, documentation and git repository here:
>
>    http://helgo.net/simon/projects/acme-xml/
>
> Regards,
> Simon Kågedal Reimer
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