On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Paul Rohr wrote:
> >
> > PS: The original author of expat, James Clark, is a legend in the XML
> > community. I'm suprised to see anyone calling his work "less mature".
>
> His parser seems to be minimalistic and very useful functionality that can be
> considered orthogonal from academical POV is missing in it (support for
> charsets different from utf8 - though it has very obscure interface to support
> other encodings - that AW uses to support single-byte encodings right now).
> libxml(2) supports any encodings iconv() supports without additional efforts
> from the programmer. Of course, both parsers are mature and stable, but expat
> has very bare functionality.
>
At 100K it isn't minimalistic enought for me =;-) At QNX we
had to write our own smaller version for small space constrained
systems.
Thomas
