Re: [xml] Delphi bindings for libxml2

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

On 03.02.2005 00:05, Eric Zurcher csiro au wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> It is now almost exactly 2 years since the last update of Petr
> Kozelka's Pascal units for accessing libxml2 and libxslt(available at
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas). Those units
> corresponded to release 2.5.10 of libxml2. Since then, there have
> been a number of significant additions to the libxml2 API, such as
> the addition of the SAX2 parser.
>
> I make extensive use of libxml2 in several of my Delphi applications,
> and wanted to be able to make use of the faster SAX2 code, so I
> thought I'd try updating the bindings on my own. I first tried using
> h2pas, but found that it didn't work as well as I had hoped (perhaps
> a result of my inexperience in its use). As an alternative, I put
> together an XSLT transformation to generate the bindings from
> libxml2-api.xml (and its libxslt counterparts), rather than from the
> *.h files. This approach seems to have worked well, with the output
> of the transformation requiring only a tiny bit of manual editing.
>
> I have tried several times to contact Petr to see whether he would
> like to incorporate my binding into his libxml2-pas project on
> sourceforge, but I have received no response from him. I am writing
> now to see whether anyone else is interested this code, or in
> providing a "home" for it so that it can be distributed (preferably
> under the terms of the MIT license) to any who wish to use it.

I can put the code on zlatkovic.com together with the Windows binaries. 
It will be automatically mirrored on xmlsoft.org. I can give you a shell 
account on zlatkovic.com so you can update the package(s).

Ciao,
Igor