[Tclxml-users] TclDOM help sought

[Larry W. V. <lv...@ca...>]

Okay, can someone walk me through what it takes to install TclDOM?

Here's why I ask.  I downloaded the tar file.  I configure, make and install
it.

Now, a user tries to use it and says:

The Tcl DOM docs recommend going with a C implementation
(rather than the default tcl implementation) for speed purposes.
They mention TclDOMPro and libxml2, with the latter being
preferred for some reason.

Only the tcl implementation seems to be available to me:

  % package require dom
  2.6
  % package require dom::tcl
  2.6

  % package require dom::c
  can't find package dom::c

  % package require dom::TclDOMPro
  can't find package dom::TclDOMPro

  % package require dom::libxml2
  couldn't load file "/usr/tcl84/lib/tcldomxml2.6/libtcldomxml2.6g.so":
  ld.so.1: tclsh: fatal: libxml2.so.2: open failed: No such file or directory

So, here are my questions:

1. Is dom:cc still an active extension, or is it deprecated?
	To get dom::c to work, do I need to install a seperate package?
	If so, what?
2. Is TclDOMPro still an active extension that people are expected to use,
	or is it deprecated?

I'll investigate the hand editing needed of the libxml2 Makefile so it
no longer fails to find the library; it's too bad that isn't handled in
the distribution, but I can fix that.
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