[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45951] Add "xmlread" to core Octave or replace the one in io package

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #45951 (project octave):

Why is classdef required, or so advatageous, for reading XML? 
I'd suppose an XML parser simply spits out some (nested) struct array, or
maybe cell array. Once there it is easy to process the data.

For libxml2 I think we need some .oct file as an interface, don't we. That
would have to be written largely from scratch. But maybe it isn't that hard, I
suppose basic bits and pieces of code can be found on the Web.
The io package would be a good home for a replacement xmlread/xmlwrite until
it is mature enough to go to core.

One thing though as regards xerces: in the io package there's an "OTK" (ODF
Toolkit) .ods spreadsheet interface that requires xerces-2.9.1 and only
exactly that version. That might interfere with newer xerces versions (or
rather, vice versa).


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