RE: XML was RE: [GD-General] RE: A portable preferences library

[Gareth L. <GL...@cl...>]

> > The most fancy on the PC is msxml, it doesn't everything, 
> > .NET basically uses it.
> 
> Currently no parsers implement the entire set of standards as 
> they are still being written. 

So ? msxml is pretty fully featured for what we were discussing.

> However, I would recommend Apache's
> XercesC over msxml. Technical reasons include that Xerces properly
> implements the open standard in an opensource manner. Xerces has
> a much faster uptake time of standards additions. MS have a habit of
> adding unecessary proprietry extensions to their implementations of
> standards which locks you in to their implementation.

How is that valid ? That's the same opengl/directx linux/windows type
argument. In what way is it related or productive to the discussion ? I
prefer msxml mainly because everyone with IE6 on their machine has it, less
to download. And Xerces (admittedly I haven't tried it in 2 years) had an
awful interface and terrible documentation. I prefer expat if you want open
source.

> 
> > The smallest I know is CMarkup (search for it on Codeproject). it's
> > literally a single class of C++ code, it's smaller than a few k :)
> 
> The smallest I know is mine which is the release time parser (debug
> parser is fully validating XercesC) and it's a single class and
> fills maybe 2 code pages (not including documentation, 1280*1024
> resolution, full size MSVC editor window). XML really is that easy
> to write straight parsers for.

Well as yours isn't downloadable and CMarkup is, I'll stick with CMarkup.