[libxml++] Benefit of the dependency on glibmm

[Alexander V. <ava...@vo...>]

Hi all,

I am new to libxml and libxml++ so I am not much familiar with the code 
of libxml++ (i've just had a quick and superfluous look). Reading the 
dependency requirements i stumbled upon the line "glibmm-2.4 
<http://www.gtkmm.org/> (or a subset of it containing at least 
Glib::ustring)". As I am developing for the windows platform (along with 
linux and macos), I am a bit picky about dependencies (not easy on 
windows). What worried me here is the dependency on glibmm, which in 
turn depends on glib itself, which depends on several other gnu libs.  
My question is - how heavily does libxml++ depend on glibmm and on 
GLib::ustring? Is it theoretically possible to use std::string instead 
and possibly directly libiconv for unicode conversions? Is this a 
feasible idea, or I have missed something in my quick look?

Best regards
Alex