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

[Earl Hood]

On April 7, 2003 at 10:34, Yann Dirson wrote:

> > [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 :)

>From an API design standpoint, what OpenSP uses internally does
not matter.  That is a problem for the backend implementor to resolve.

--ewh