Re: [xml] libxml2 and libxslt wishlist

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:30:02AM +0000, mgrushinskiy comcast net wrote:
> I don't know if there is a separately maintained wishlist for these libraries.
> But here are few features which would be nice to have there ;)
>
> 1. regexp exslt functions for libxslt

  requires to extend the existing regexp implementation of libxml2,
since relying on external support won't be portable I'm afraid.

> 2. XUpdate processor (xmldb.org)

  Hum, that can mean a lot of different things. Dumping the result
of a parse in a DB should be simple. Being able to load full documents
from a DB would need to introduce intermediate APIs, to hook the DB
backend, should not be not too hard. Adding progressive loading/unloading
of the tree to/from the DB for traversal or XPath on the other hand
is a serious work, actually that could be added to 2.6.x base branch
but this is major/serious/hard work.

> 3. finished schemas

  Let's be frank, there is an acronym for this "PITA" ...

> 4. options to store original XML formatting in parsed tree representation
>     (ex. if attributes are on separate lines, xmllint would output them 
>     same way, at least with some option)

  I'm not sure keeping track of ignorable informations is really useful for
a lot of people. If you need to process at this level, why not use text 
processing tools (perl comes to mind).

Daniel

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