Fw: Books / GNUStep / XML

[Christopher Culver]

Here's a message from Chris Karr regarding cross-platform XML support
in Books. I would be grateful if the more experienced developers here
could advise him. To me choice 2 seems the best, since libxml is
already a dependency for GNUstep, but what do I know.

It looks like there's not that much more to do
before Books on GNUstep becomes a reality.

Christopher Culver
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> Wed, 12 May 2004 09:37:54 -0500
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> As I've posted on my blog, I've addressed a lot of the concerns the 
> GNUStep folk have about porting Books to GNUStep. The one large task 
> that remains is the usage of the CoreFoundation XML routines that are 
> unavailable elsewhere. I was thinking about this problem on the way to 
> work and came up with two possible solutions:
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> 1. Create an XML wrapper class that could be implemented to support any 
> DOM-based XML parsers. This approach has advantages in that XML 
> libraries could be swapped in for increased compatibility, performance, 
> and so forth. The disadvantage is that the wrapper would have to be 
> reimplemented in places where CF is not available. (GNUStep)
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> 2. Use a more standard and available library such as libxml. This would 
> probably involve replacing the CF procedural calls with some other 
> ones. This has an advantage as there are probably many out there who 
> know and understand libxml and it's probably fairly widely available. 
> Its disadvantage is that my project now has a libxml dependency and I 
> can either bundle the library with Books or I have to be sure that 
> users have it installed.
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> Any thoughts about which is a better way to proceed from the GNUStep 
> developers?
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> -Chris
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