Re: [libxml++] LibXML++ Min Requirements/ diff between 1 & 2.7?

[Christophe de VIENNE <cdevienne alphacent com>]

Moretti, Luciano (MED) wrote:

> What are the ABSOLUTE minimum requirements for using this package?
> I know the requirements stated for version 2.6 & Higher on the sourceforge
> site are libxml2 & glibmm-2.4, but glibmm-2.4 seems to require the GTK+
> library, which creates more overhead.  The site mentions using a subset of
> glibmm-2.4 that contains Glib::ustring but doesn't expand any further on how
> to do this.
>  

I personnaly did not try to extract Glib::ustring. Can't help on this.
However you don't need GTK+ to install glibmm-2.4, which depends only on 
glib. This make the dependencies much lower than you suggest.
FYI: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3923642&forum_id=12784

> Also- What are the major differences between V1.0 & V2.7?  I'm looking at
> the potential of using the old version because of it's lower dependencies.
>  

2.6:
- use of Glib::ustring instead of std::string.
- Addition of TextReader interface

2.7:
- Addition of Validator and DtdValidator



Regards,

Christophe