Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] XML Light

[Nicolas C. <war...@fr...>]

> > I'm currently rewriting my Xml-Light library which is a minimal Xml
> > parser/printer and adding DTD support to it.
>
>  Is it? Is it _really_ a minimal XML parser/printer?
>  I fear it is just a parser/printer for a minimal _subset_ of XML!

Yes it is.

>  (e.g. Does it supports UNICODE characters? What about Entities?
>   What about Notation? Is it 100% fully compliant with the spec?)

No, no, no, and no :-)

>  We do not need yet another standard for documents. Either it is
>  fully XML compliant (and there is already PXP - native ocaml -
>  or gdome2-ocaml - binding to libgdome) or it is unuseful/threatening.

Why do you think then I am "loosing" my time writing it then ?

PXP is huge, complex, didn't managed to compiled it under Win32 in one day,
but quite complete : this library is for "professionnal" XML users. Let me
explain my thoughts... As far as I know, there is a lot of differents ways
of using XML, and I'm pretty sure that about 85% of the usages are for
configuration files and import/export of XML data. Theses usages needs only
the _subset_ of all the XML specs that Xml Light will support, I have no
ambition of rewriting a PXP, but I think it will be good for the OCaml
community to have such a small thing available. Of course, I would like to
be as much compliant with the spec, so please review the code once released.

So I don't think its unuseful since I already had several users enjoying the
previous version of Xml Light which was not even supporting CDATA et PCDATA
! And I don't think it's threatening either since with the help of the
community we will stick to a given subset of the specs.

Nicolas Cannasse