Re: Re[2]: [libxml++] patch to allow building without glibmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 15:23 +0200, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:16:43 -0300 Darko Miletic <darko uvcms com> wrote:
> 
> DM> There is an easy solution for this problem. Just use libxml++ 1.0x. It 
> DM> works with std::string. I use it both on windows and linux and it works 
> DM> perfectly.
> 
>  In fact, as I wrote, I think that libxml++ 2.x works just fine with
> std::string too. Again, I might be missing something but from reading the
> code it looks like strings in libxml++ are used as just buffers containing
> characters and their internal encoding couldn't matter less.

The API matters. Glib::ustring is an API to UTF8 code, and the strings
are always UTF8.

> DM> The only drawback for this approach is if you need UTF-16 or UTF-32 
> DM> encoding. These are not supported by libxml++ 1.0x.
> 
>  Another important point, of course, is that any new features are probably
> added to the latest version only, aren't they? E.g. I'm eagerly looking
> forward to more high-level XML schema support in libxml++ and I don't think
> this is ever going to be added to libxml++ 1.x, will it?

Feel free to fork it or take maintainership and create a libxml++
1.1/1.2 version, adding features to libxml++ 1.0 without breaking the
API.

Murray