AW: AW: WG: [xml] WG: Document traversing interface for libxml2

["Mickautsch, Alfred" <alfred mickautsch schuler-ag com>]

>   Right, this makes some sense too, this actually gets really close
> to the C# interfaces if I understand correctly.
>   An xmlWalker would then be a structure exposing a set of 
> callbacks to do
> NextElement/PrevElement/... Kind of low level driver access 
> to data, and
> the xmlTextReader offering a standard API on top of it.
>   Maybe the existing code should be removed if we plan to go this way.
> Shuffling APIs is okay during the beta phase but once 2.6.0 
> is released,

Yes, I think this would be the better solution.

> I must garantee API/ABI stability. Extending the base xmlTextReader to
> be able to process random data is an interesting idea but might take
> a bit of time to do right. I'm rather busy with other things planned
> for 2.6.0 (the TODO list is simply scary !) so if you (and 
> Bjorn and others)
> want to work on it, fine, but I can't really focuse on that right now.

I can work on the xmlWalker, but this will surely take some time, since,
like you will have found out, I do not know very much about the internals
of libxml2. I am more the like of a libxml user.
Besides I can work on it only on weekends. So the time schedule should
not be very tight.
And I do not have internet access at home, so my feedback to the list
will be somewhat delayed when I am not at work.

Regarding the coding style: can someone please tell me what parameters
I must pass to indent for libxml2 code?

Servus -- Alfred