On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: > On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: >> Checking back in: >> >> Curious if this effort is still underway. Adam and I would like to >> delete the New XML Parser if it's not needed in order to simplify the >> HTML 5 Parser again. :) > > We do tentatively plan to get back to it (the original implementor is > currently working full-time at Apple on the WebKit team).
As far as I can tell, no one has worked on the NEWXML code in over a year, the implementation doesn't work, and the code is disabled by all ports. It seems like we should remove it from trunk. We can retore it if/when someone is interested in working on it again. > As far as simplifying the HTML5 parser - isn't most of the foundational work > that touches the HTML5 parser also required for WebVTT, as mentioned by me in > the email you quote below? Is there a big simplicity win to be had without > breaking WebVTT? If so, we can think about whether removing the scaffolding > and reconstructing it when needed is worthwhile. This is a separate issue. Adam >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <m...@apple.com> wrote: >>> >>> On Mar 15, 2012, at 1:29 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: >>> >>>> It seems the "New XML Parser" hasn't been touched in about 8 months: >>>> >>>> http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore/xml/parser >>>> >>>> Are there any plans to continue work on such, or can it be removed? >>>> The refactoring which was done to support it seems to mostly just >>>> confuse the HTML 5 Parser code... :( >>>> >>>> (I went looking for how something was implemented in the HTML5 >>>> parser... and it took me a long time to find it this afternoon). >>> >>> Yes, we plan to get more active on this effort again within a few months. >>> >>> Note that some of the refactoring was able to benefit the WebVTT parser, so >>> we need some generic parser abstractions in any case. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Maciej >>> > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev