Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] XML libraries

[Phil Martin <Phil@xxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Apr 2006, at 08:55, Luke Hart wrote:

> 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.

I'll check out gmetadom. I suggested liobgdome-cpp simply because  
that's what's referred to from the libxml2 web site.

> 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!).

The help and movies download system and the XPF filter use the DOM  
interface. Other existing code is written using DOM interfaces but  
doesn't manipulate the XML document.

Phil