Re: NSXMLDocument

[Michael C. Silva]

Thanks everyone.  I'll investigate the GSXML and see if there's a  
reasonable path to an NSXMLDocument 'wrapper' as suggested.

If I go down this path I'll keep you all updated on the progress so  
the code can hopefully be folded back into the project.

Mike


On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

> > I stopped doing anything with it when it became apparent to me from  
> > the desgin of the API, that Apples new classes are actually a  
> > wrapper round libxml2 ... and we already have a wrapper round  
> > libxml2 in GSXML.m in the base library.  So I couldn't decide what  
> > to do:
> > We could implement a second wrapper around libxml2 following  
> > Apple's API and implementation details as closely as we can,
>
> I (personally) vote for this option.  Maybe we could even remove  
> GSXML at some point. ;-)
>
> Eg, Renaissance has separate XML parsing code for GNUstep and  
> Apple.  It would be nice to have been able to use a single API
> across the two. :-)
>
> Getting rid of libxml2 and going for the pure Objective-C route  
> sounds like a big job ... for little gain, so I don't think it would
> be very useful.
>
> Thanks

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