Re: Win32 XML parser [was: PATCH: ... LIBXML2 was broken]

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:15 AM +0100 2/7/01, Mike Nordell wrote:
>Sam TH wrote:
>>  Win32 actually has an XML parser DLL, but no one has ever tried to
>>  get AbiWord to link against it.  Mike?
>
>I've been thinking of this one too, but unfortunately that would probably
>leave out _a lot_ of users, since I think this DLL is only part of
>IExplorer5.

        The original versions of MSXML came with IE4 - so you're fine
there.   HOWEVER, it's API is VERY different from what we use today.
It's a COM-based API and uses a DOM approach to data access.


>But if I'm wrong and the XML parser really _is_ a simple redistributable DLL
>that can run on vanilla Win95+, please tell me and I'll have a look at it.
>
        It is - BUT the code paths would be icky and wouldn't gain us anything.


LDR
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