Re: XML tools for Octave

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On 6/30/06, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

> But as I said earlier, I really don't know much about XML, and it is
> apparently too late to object anyway, since it is now widely used.
> OTOH, as my mother used to say, "If all your friends jumped off a
> bridge, would you do it too?"

The reality is that there are data formats in use already which we would
like to access from Octave. (For example I, personally, would like to
have an ability to read and write Ggobi (www.ggobi.org) data files
which are in XML.)
I do not think anyone here proposes XML capabilities just because
that is what "all your friends did."

The RSXML docs include some design considerations which I
thought may be of some use for Octave XML parser.

As I mentioned before I would concider the XML parser to be
a "middleware" and as such a thin wrapper would be probably
the best.

> jwe

Sincerely,
Dmitri.
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