Re: [xml] MIME multipart

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 10:37:01AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Peter Jacobi wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm looking for code to reuse to let libxml2 work with MIME multipart 
> > content retrieved via HTTP.
> >
> > I assume there is a large selection of MIME supporting libs, but I would 
> > like to have just a very minimal and small component for this.
>
> If size is important, why not implement your own? Parsing MIME is *really*
> simple. I have some Perl code that does it in about 100 lines, so I
> imagine it can be done in about ~200 in C. Let me know if you want to see
> the code.

  Hum, actually I would be interested, it's not high in my priority
list but XML Fragment is in Candidate REC, and I ough to implement
it (I'm coauthor after all). A small mime multipart support would make
it useful for packaging:
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-fragment#d1e1604

Daniel

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