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bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality
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Eric Abrahamsen |
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bug#13603: 24.2; Feature Request: Expose more libxml functionality |
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Sun, 29 Sep 2019 07:07:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
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>> Not a bug, but a feature request. XML parsing in Emacs is currently
>> pretty messy, consisting mostly of a handful of out-of-date libraries.
>> There is talk of elisp implementations of Xpath and XSLT. For Emacsen
>> compiled with libxml2, that seems like a bad idea: the system libraries
>> are there, they just need to be exposed to emacs. My request is to make
>> more of libxml2 available to elisp, starting with Xpath.
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> What parts of Xpath were you thinking of here?
Oh I have no idea! I don't even remember why I was trying to parse so
much XML in... early 2013. I'm closing this until someone else has a
similar itch.