Re: [xml] libxml2 Perl Bindings

[Petr Pajas <pajas ufal mff cuni cz>]

On st 22. srpna 2007, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 07:08:13AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote:
> > Please consider adding up-to-date Perl binding info to the
> > libxml2 home page.  The Perl binding that is aimed at tracking
> > libxml2 completely is the XML::LibXML module available at
> > www.cpan.org.  It is being actively developed and maintained
> > and its mailing list is at
> > perl-xml listserv activestate com 
>
>   What about giving a full URL to the project page ? That would
> help. Also did the maintainer changed ? XML::LibXML has been
> around for a long long time, I don't recognize your name but I
> think that's the 5th mail I get from you asking for this, so I
> wonder what is going on ! Is that a zealotry case, some kind of
> background change or a real missing information ? I have a hard
> time guessing out !
>   What info do you consider not uptodate ? pointers and details
> please !
>
>    thanks,
>
> Daniel

Daniel,

the current maintainer of the Perl bindings happens to be me. 
Currently xmlsoft.org refers to the bindigns at 
http://xmlsoft.org/python.html (a bit confusing by itself) as 
follows

"Matt Sergeant developed XML::LibXSLT, a Perl wrapper for 
libxml2/libxslt as part of the AxKit XML application server."

Although this is true, none of the links provided currently points 
to something useful and moreover, the paragraph is probably hard to 
find. This is probably the reason behind Tom's postings.

I suggest the following changes, which should be more than 
sufficient for most users:

Remove the aforementioned paragraph, and instead add a link 

<a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML";>Perl bindings</a>

to the section Related links, along C++, Ruby, PHP, etc. at 
http://xmlsoft.org and a possibly another link

<a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXSLT";>Perl libxslt 
bindings</a>

to the section Related links (near XSLT with PHP) at 
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT.

Thanks a lot and appologies to both you and Tom about not stepping 
in sooner.
-- Petr