By the way, I hadn't meant to "step in it" by chiming in on this topic, so please pardon me, just that XML stuff interests me... I was just looking back at the history of Victor comments here and realizing I probably should have just kept quiet ;o) Anyway, _if_ sword ever does start to lean more toward complete XML parsing in the future, you might be interested that Expat is about 1/50th the size of Xerxes, and does build on a lot of platforms though I'm still not certain it's as many as sword.... There may be other better ones I don't know about yet but that one is my favorite at the moment due to its efficiency... ;o)
Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Burry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:59 PM Subject: Re: [sword-devel] We need XML parser > At 11:35 PM 6/5/2002 -0700, Chris Little wrote: > > So... we will never use a full DOM parser because we don't need the full > > capabilities of a DOM parser. It would, at times, be nice, but it's not > > worth the increase in binary size > > This is a good point regarding the weight. Some of them are not full dom > parsers however, but more lightweight things, that's what I'd prefer to see > used since that's all we'd need. > > > or the headaches of porting other people's libraries to new platforms > > for them, which would be almost inevitable. > > This is a good point. However, some of them are being ported to more and > more platforms... Remember the simpler it is the easier it is to port. > > Anyway, as always, my blabber is just a suggestion... which may or may not > be followed for various reasons of course... ;o) > > Dave > >
