Re: [Ocaml-lib-devel] XML Light

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

> > 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.
>
> What about putting an easy to use wrapper around PXP then?  How about
> helping PXP run on Windows then?
>
> I'm sure I'm talking to a programmer here who, like me, would like to
> write new code rather than use existing code :)

I can't deny I am :-)
But I have also good arguments for it, for example the code size of the
resulting library binary won't exceed few KB.
PXP have to go its own way, there is really enough space and need for one
library like Xml Light, don't you think ?

Nicolas Cannasse