Re: [xml] lazy libxml

[Frans Englich <frans englich telia com>]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 08:51, Nic James Ferrier wrote:
> Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:
> >   The problem is that libxml2 core won't be aware of that subtype.
> > And adding a node type to libxml2 is not something I would do
> > lightly.
>
> I don't think one would do it like that. See below.
>
> > I don't really understand what it is aiming at honnestly,
>
> The reason for having lazy XML is that you can add things to the tree
> that are lazy.
>
> Ok, so that was a dumb explanation. Here's my practical use case.
>
> I am developing XRT (http://xsltpages.nongnu.org) which is an HTTP
> server side mechanism using XSLT as the main handling language.
>
> XRT has to handle all types of content though, not just XML. I would
> like XRT to be able to handle binary types (like raster images) by
> representing them as XML binary objects (as Tim Bray has suggested)
> thusly:
>
>   <element xml:binary="base64">

I think Daniel nicely outlined the various problems exposed in your idea. I 
would like to add that you should look into XPath 2.0/XSL-T 2.0/XQuery 1.0
(not supported by libxml2), which has builtin support for types like 
xs:base64.


Cheers,

                Frans