Re: Problems with xml-parse-string

[Chong Yidong]

Leo <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2010-09-22 19:14 +0100, Edward O'Connor wrote:
>> More importantly, there's a fair amount of elisp out there that
>> expects the structure xml.el puts out. If you ask me [which, of
>> course, you didn't :)] the libxml stuff should be made to output the
>> exact same structure as xml.el already does.
>
> I would think those packages use the public functions offered by xml.el
> to do their work. The structure should remain internal.

The public functions return the parse tree.  I don't think it's possible
to abstract that away.