At 14:38 02/06/05 +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
Graham Klyne writes:
> http://www.ninebynine.org/Software/HaskellUtils/HaXml-1.12/
> This code is all heavily refactored from the original
> HaXml for improved XML entity handling, namespace,
> xml:lang and xml:base support [...].
Is there any chance of reuniting the two HaXml versions into
a single release?
Well, this has been discussed, and I think that Malcolm is broadly
favourable in principle, but it ultimately depends upon both of us finding
time and effort to do the requisite merging. I did talk about my changes
with Malcolm as I applied them, so I would hope there's not too much there
that is incompatible with his vision for HaXml.
Meanwhile, when I have time, I hope to package my version as a Cabal
package so that those who want the features I added have a reasonably easy
route to using them. Until then, the best I can offer is the code on my
web site.
I maintain quite a bit of code that's based on Malcolm's
original HaXml version, and I'm reluctant to switch because
I'm very happy with his library, but I would also like to
have support for the features you've mentioned. So from my
perspective, getting your changes back into the "main
release" would be the best course of action.
When making changes, I did try fairly hard to maintain as much backward
compatibility as I could -- adding features and interfaces rather than
displacing them -- though I think there were a couple of unavoidable type
signature changes.
The most intractable incompatibilities may be incompatible XML handling
where I have made changes to follow the official specification more closely.
We've talked about that before. Has there been any progress?
Sadly, no :-(
#g
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