On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 03:52:53PM -0800, Mike Pogue wrote: > Xerces-C is based on version 3 of XML4C from IBM. > Version 3 is running on Linux, and has not been ported to FreeBSD yet. > This would be a great contribution!
Right, I have icu-1.2.5 and XML4C 2.3.1 both compiled up under FreeBSD. I know the ICU libraries are broken, though I think it's only in the floating point and timezone routines. Not sure about the XML4C stuff yet, I've only compiled up the shared library, not the samples yet. > Note that version 3 cleanly splits out the ICU (Unicode) classes, > which are Open Sourced separately on IBM's DeveloperWorks website (there > are a whole bunch of companies and individuals working on it there). I don't understand this - AFAICS they're split out in 2.3.1 as well. > There are plug-in adapters for each code conversion framework. Right > now there's one for iconv, one for Win32 conversions, and one for ICU > (but ICU itself you get from the IBM Open Source site). So I need one of iconv, ICU or the Win32 stuff to build Xerces? Never heard of anything other than ICU, so I guess I'll stick with that. How much different is Xerces than XML4C atm? The changes required to get it to compile (given a working ICU) are fairly trivial, so it might be an easy task to fold them into the current tree. Or would it be better to wait until I'm sure the XML4C stuff is all working properly? J. -- Pretty please, with sugar on top, clean the f**king car.
