RE: [libxml++] libxml++ future

[Dan Dennedy <dan dennedy org>]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:15, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > From: Dan Dennedy [mailto:dan dennedy org] 
> > I am also personally interested in entity-support in the near term.
> 
> As you know, I'm willfully ignorant. Could you tell us more about what you
> would like the API to do for this?

For now, I just need to be able to manually add them from the sax parser
in my custom DOM --it always goes back to that! So, I would need the SAX
event exposed, and a very simple node subclass.

Basically, in a custom DOM derived from libxml++ DOM, I need to preserve
any node I do not know about (xml passthrough). Hopefully, you can
envision how this whole thing ties in well with namespaces support. A
custom DOM implementation is only concerned with things in selective
namespaces; foreign namespace nodes simply pass-through. Now, combine
this concept with chains of SAX parsers/serializers and you have a
framework for simple, modular xml processors. This concept can then be
distributed using xml-rpc or that network adapter thingee for libsigc++.

You may wonder what my motivation is... I work very much in the video
space where things are time-based and there is heavy processing. I want
to load xml into a DOM, manipulate the DOM over time (SMIL animation),
and for each iteration/frame, serialize signals out to, for example, an
SVG processor (i.e., the expat-based librsvg).

I am not very concerned about DTD nodes, however.

I am curious, has there been any discussion of W3C DOM API conformance?