Re: AW: [xml] xmlTextWriter

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 12:27:50PM +0200, Mickautsch, Alfred wrote:
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Jeroen Cranendonk [mailto:j cranendonk emaxx nl]
> > Gesendet: Montag, 6. Oktober 2003 18:55
> > An: Mickautsch, Alfred; xml gnome org
> > Betreff: Re: [xml] xmlTextWriter
> >
> >
> > Cool! ^-^
> >
> > but slightly double work perhaps ? :)
>
> Amazing! After looking at your code and if I didn't know it better :) I'd say I copied at least some parts 
> from your code :-). 

  Okay, can we get a merged version ? Pick the best of both, assemble it 
put both of you as Copyright owners and we will integrate this, okay ?

> I even found a bug that we share in our code (I think it's a
> bug): the xmlTextWriter allows for multiple xml prologs in the same
> document (you can call xmlTextWriterWriteStartDocument after calling
> xmlTextWriterWriteEndDocument), which in my opinion does not conform
> with the xml standard.

  Hum, the big problem is that if you serialize multiple documents
on a single stream, an XML parser reading it has no way to detect the
end of a document. This open the door to more troubles then it's
useful IMHO.

> I am quite new on this list so I didn't know that you were working on the same thing.

  Do not underestimate the search engine
    http://xmlsoft.org/search.php?query=xmlTextWriter
allows to locate the threead where this was discussed
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2003-May/msg00076.html

> Well, maybe I should stop the work on xmlTextWriter. I do not know, if two slightly different aproaches are 
> the best thing we should do.

  No, no, don't stop now. Just make sure you end up with something
which souns correct to both of you. Otherwise I will have to pick one
and you don't want me to be the one deciding in an arbitrary manner :-)

Daniel

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