Re: [xml] Support for Python

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 02:21:25PM -0800, Dave Kuhlman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 03:35:34PM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >     I would split it into:
> >       - Support for the tree interface built on libxml
> >       - Support for the DOM2 api built on gdome2
>
> Good idea.  Divide the problem into managable parts.

  Well especially since the gdome2 people went through the (relative)
hell to provide DOM2 semantic on top of libxml2 API.

> In two or three more days, I hope to make available what I've done
> in the way of SWIG wrappers for the definitions in tree.h.  Then,
> we can decide whether that is a worthwhile starting point or not.

  Well, I'm trying that too we will see.

> I wonder, is there a minimal interface that each driver must
> implement?  I believe that we will want to implement that basic
> interface _plus_ a few extensions, e.g. (1) request validation, (2)
> turn individual event handlers on an off during the parse.  I'll
> try to look into this, too.

  libxml2 validation is based on the tree, it doesn't work on SAX
alone. Moreover validation requires access to DTD informations,
which are pieces I don't see in the existing callbacks. For (2)
yes and this should be allowed to be changed dynamically.

Daniel

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