Re: [Libxmlplusplus-general] TextReader class

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 13:45, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> > I'd rather not add something until it becomes a standard. Also, didn't
> > Daniel recently add an xmlTextReader to libxml itself?
> 
> Sorry, that's what I meant: I did a libxml++-style wrapper for libxml's
> xmlTextReader (similar to how the xmlpp::SaxParser uses libxml's
> xmlSAXHandler API)
>  
> > Also, this should probably use libxml++ classes in its interface, and
> > maybe be implemented in terms of libxml++.
> 
> It uses xmlpp:Node class.
> It uses std::string currently, but could (should) switch to glib::ustring
> when libxml++ does.
> Apart from that, I couldn't see any way to re-use more of libxml++ with
> the xmlTextReader interface - it's quite a simple and independent API.

That's great.

> > Maybe it's something for libxml++ 1.2.
> 
> Well, maybe.  I just wanted to mention I'd done it, in case anyone else
> was thinking about it. If anyone does want to do it properly I'll send
> them my class as a start (I didn't implement all methods, as some are
> either very new or not implemented yet in libxml itself)
> 
> Because it needs a (mostly) complete xmlTextReader from libxml it requires
> libxml 2.5 or greater, which I assume is too tight a requirement for
> libxml++ at the moment.
> 
> Anyway, announcement made, I'll get back to work  :-)

At the moment my only objections are
1. It doesn't seem to be a real standard.
2. It should wait for 1.2 because 1.0 is trying to achieve a minimal
stable API quickly.

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