Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-26 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Probably my english is worse than I thought! :-D Well. I'd like to build a framework for web development as described in http://9fans.net/archive/2008/11/748 http://9fans.net/archive/2008/11/796 Since XML (and XSLT) are so diffused, it would allow to delegate the (not so) tiny client/browser to

[9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hello list, I've found in http://netlib.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Contrib_index/ the xml2 (libxml2-2.6.30 for APE) package from Federico G. Benavento. I was wondering if I have to use all the APE to use the library for writing a Plan 9 application. Giacomo

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Federico G. Benavento
hola, I was wondering if I have to use all the APE to use the library for writing a Plan 9 application. as it says it's an APE port, that means you have to use the APE api with it, I see no point in writing a native app using libxml2, if I needed to doing some xml I'd use something like

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Ehm... Sorry... :-D As I knew libxml2, I directly searched libxml2 in the contrib page... You're right... I'll use that. :-D Giacomo On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Federico G. Benavento [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: hola, I was wondering if I have to use all the APE to use the library for

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Uriel
xml? Just say *no*. And BTW, steve's libxml is far from usable and doesn't really implement the complete standard (but who can blame him? the libxml2 people have been working on their implementation for years, and it is still full of bugs and security issues, not to mention insanely slow).

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Eris Discordia
Again, just say *no* to xml, even the web 2.0 fools have given it up. I agree. Web 2.0 is for fools. I don't agree. Say yes to XML because you have to say yes to some markup language anyway. Why not give the yes to an eXtensible one with a zillion applications already, from TEI to DocBook to

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Giacomo Tesio
I'd prefer to avoid flame war, since I know this is an hot cold topic here. But I don't agree. On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Uriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xml? Just say *no*. And BTW, steve's libxml is far from usable and doesn't really implement the complete standard (but who can

Re: [9fans] xml2 and APE

2008-11-25 Thread Nick LaForge
hello, interfacing external languages should not often be hard, especially by defining a relevent language subset. i don't understand, though, why your external language 'xml' need now be part of your application? thanks, nkl