Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] XML libraries

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Phil Martin wrote:

> We will need to start enabling code that uses XML soon. The Windows  
> code uses MSXML4.dll which exposes an xml document in memory as a  
> tree of nodes using the w3c DOM specification. Since Camelot needs  
> the ability to manipulate XML documents in memory, not just parse or  
> write XML streams, and since wxWidgets hopes one day to support a DOM  
> interface onto XML I am suggesting that we use an XML library that  
> supports DOM.
>
> A quick bit of research suggests that the combination of libxml2 and  
> libgdome-cpp is the obvious candidate.
>
> Sound OK to everyone?
>
> Phil
Phil,

I've got a nearly complete install of Gnome on my Gentoo box and gdome2 
is not installed. Even worse libgdome-cpp is not in Portage. In fact 
libgnome-cpp has been orphaned, but  there is a replacement called 
gmetadom, which is in Portage. I have no problems with the using 
libxml2, since this is a very commonly used library.

Out of interest what does Camelot do that needs a DOM style interface to 
the XML, or is it just how all of the code is written at the momemnt 
(which I surpose is a good enought reason!).

   Luke