Re: [xml] some questions

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 12:42:58AM +0200, aliban gmx net wrote:
> hi,
> my project the jabber lib will be finished in the next weeks (ready 
> to publish ;)
> i had a few questions
>
> a) is it possible to compile/use libxml2 without the usage of iconv 
> and zlib? in fact i am not using any other stuff then utf8. i did not 
> try yet because i was using the precompiled dlls for windows but when 
> i understand evrything right it should work without iconv?

  yes those are optionnal

> b) as you might remember i also wrote you the mail with the problem i 
> had with xmlParseChunk() and parsing the xmpp stream. You suggested 
> that you will add such a function that would do the thing one day. u 
> also said that this might not be so difficult and done in 
> xmlParseGetLasts() and xmlParseTryOrFinish(). It would be great if 
> the next release of libxml would work with my app and therefor i am 
> interested in resolving this thing. Is it ok if i make a patch or a 
> new API function for the lib and submitt it to you or would you 
> rather not integrate foreign code and do it another day yourself?

  If you read what's happening on this list, when I suggest someone does
a patch and that persone does it, I apply said patch unless there is a
serious issue. So yes, sure, I suggest you try to work around the problem,
and provide an implementation for said API, just please make sure it's
per context and not relying on a global variable.

Daniel

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