Re: [Perlsgml-dev] [FYI/RFC] SGML::Parser::OpenSP and SGML::Parser...

[Yann Dirson]

Hi Terje,

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:14:57AM +0200, Terje Bless wrote:
> Heh! Therein lies some of the problem; the code is about as far from
> structured as you could imagine. This project was started partially so I
> could learn C++ and XS; I started out with pretty much zero knowledge of
> either, or even of plain C. The code looks pretty much as you'd expect from
> that.

Have you looked at SWIG[1] to create bindings ?  It really avoids diving
into XS specificities, and additionally allows to create bindings for
other languages (python, java, guile, ...).


> Also, the "generic" API to OpenSP is rather limited -- I'm not sure yet
> whether it can even get close to match what SGML::Parser provides today! --
> and I don't even implement "bindings" to it, just some functions that
> happen to /use/ that API.

Maybe openjade's libospgrove would be closer to what you need than libosp ?


> [0] - OpenSP uses ca. 1996-era C++ and it shows; all datatypes are
>       internal hacks instead of using the STL. Strings are "unsigned
>        char*", attribute values are returned as chunked "CharString*s"
>      etc. Even I can see that this stuff is _crufty_!

Well, many people would love to see someone volunteering to cleanup
all of this :)

[1] http://www.swig.org/ - package swig1.3 in Debian

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