On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Does anyone have any experience rolling their own xml parser?
>
> I have, and I don't recommend it for serious xml use.  My effort was
> for a constrained subset of xml where I controlled the schema and,
> looking back on the experience, regret the waste of time (but to be
> fair, libexpat was about the only free parser around and it is
> difficult to use IMHO).
>
> Libxml2 is not lightweight but it is powerful and trusted.

We already build libxml2 (although we do not install it) as part of
our DocBook processing toolchain.  If we need xml parsing for
conversion, we can take the next step and add installation logic for
libxml2, libxslt (if needed), etc.

CY

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