Re: [xml] PocketPC (Windows CE) Port

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor stud fh-frankfurt de>]

Hi there,

> I fully agree with you in that developing a separate wince xml io  module
> will do the trick much better than the #fidef game. Everytime I tried to
> port something to PocketPC (or Windows CE) I found the same problem. And
> the fastest track is, of course, the dirty one!

Well, the open/read/write/close implementation for WinCE would then be
directly reusable in every other application and would kill a lot of dirty
code, eh? :-)

> Anyway I found a little bit of incoherence in the include policy along
> libxml code, so it was much easier (and faster,again) to ifdef my changes
> so they became much more visible, instead of go changing several modules
to
> homogeinize the includes.

What incoherence? Okay, the file xmlwin32version.h is obsolete and the code
should be changed not to use it, but that is all and relevant only on
Windows.

> For the records, the port is working great already in two applications
> though only parts have been really tested (neither xpath nor html).

That is good! Adding another platform to the list of supported ones is
always good.

> Finally, I support the idea of a wince compatibility module development
and
> commit myself to help as much as I can to that effort.

I have reread what I have wrote and it sounded as if I wanted to make that
effort. Sorry, that was not what I wanted to say. I don't have access to
WinCE and I therefore cannot do anything. You are the only one known to me
who uses libxml on WinCE and if there is indeed noone else, you are alone
with that effort.

Ciao
Igor