Re: [Tclish-devel] Package description format

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Steve Cassidy wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 31 July 2001 01:09, Andreas Kupries wrote:
> >
> > > Jeff Hobbs has just indicated that Active State is on this trail.
> >
> > I know so far that the package description format used here is XML
> > based. The base DTD is 'OSD' (see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-OSD.html)
> > with some extensions to it. To answer questions beyond this I will
> > have to read up on our documents and whitepapers about PPM.
> 
> I've had a look at the PPM format and I think I agree now that using an XML
> based format is the way to go especially since there is some momentum behind
> this particular package description format.

[...snip...]

> Peter, Steve, how about whipping up a tcl-xml module to parse this and give
> us access to the relevant parts?

No need for us to do it: AS are already working on it.  Also, it is
apparent that TclXML is going to be included at least in tcllib
(if not the core) so that it is always available for processing OSD 
documents.

At the moment I'm doing some work on maintaining TclXML itself.

Cheers,
Steve

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