Again, I expect you can disable all of these safely. You'd have to build your own copy of webkit however.
I intended to reply to the entire list, but must have hit the wrong button. -eric On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Leonid Romanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your answer, Eric! I see that you replied directly to me, not > to the mailing list. Did you hit wrong button? > Anyway, if you don't mind I would like to ask you another question. You > are right, WebKit doesn't directly calls any libxml2 functions related > to the features I listed. However, I'm afraid that if I disable them I > will end with subpar browser comparing to the Apple WebKit. > Consider, for example, XInclude support. It is true that disabling it in > libxml2 won't break WebKit build because of unresolved symbols. But what > if WebKit doesn't really need to call any XInclude related functions > from libxml2 in order to support it? May be it all happens > transparently: libxml2 (with XInclude support enabled) internally > resolves XInclude reference and asks WebKit to fetch external resource > by calling some callback function with external resource URI as > parameter, so no "WebKit<->XInclude" glue code on WebKit side is > required. > I said "what if" because I don't know how it all works in reality. I'm > only guessing. Since libxml2 shipped with Mac OS has XInclude support > enabled, one way to verify my guess is to see whether Apple WebKit > supports XInclude or not : if it does then my guess is most likely > right, if it doesn't then who knows. The problem is that I haven't found > any docs on webkit.org which state what XML related specs are supported > by Apple WebKit. But if my guess is right, then disabling XInclude in > libxml2 is a bad thing to do if I want to have a browser as advanced as > Apple WebKit. And I do want it. So, considering all what I said above, > is it really OK to disable XInclude in libxml2? > I used XInclude as example, but the same reasoning applies to DTD > validation and XPointer. > > P.S. If this question is outside the scope of your knowledge just tell > me so and I'll repost it to the mailing list as followup. > > > > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 13:25 -0700, Eric Seidel wrote: > > As far as I know, none of those features are required by WebKit. You > > should be fine to link against a version of libXML2 which does not > > include those. > > > > -eric > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Leonid Romanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to minimize WebKit and dependents libraries footprint, so I'd > > > like to know what libxml2 features that can be enabled/disabled via > > > configure are needed for WebKit. To be more specific, does WebKit need: > > > - HTML support > > > - DTD validation > > > - XInclude support > > > - XPath support (does WebKit have its own XPath engine?) > > > - XPointer support > > > > > > Could anyone shed some light on this, please? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Leonid. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > webkit-dev mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > > > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
