Re: [Tclxml-devel] Switch to SourceForge version of expat?

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Steve Ball wrote:
> Joe English wrote:
> >[...] would it be a good idea to switch to the
> > official expat release hosted at SourceForge?
>
> Yes.  My plan was to merge the Ajuba changes into the SF version.

I think this has already been done -- sort of.

As far as I can tell, most of the Scriptics/Ajuba changes
had to do with DTD Infoset items (<!ELEMENT..> and <!ATTLIST...>
declarations), which expat 1.1 did not support.  However,
expat 1.95 (the current version on expat.sourceforge.net)
*does* support these, just in a slightly different way than
what Eric Melski implemented in the tclexpat version of expat.

[ Eric -- can you confirm or deny this? ]


> > Unfortunately the two versions are not _entirely_ compatible,
> > but the required changes (to dom::c anyway) look fairly minor.
>
> dom::c shouldn't even know about (tcl)expat; it should be using the
> new C API in TclXML v2.0.  TclXML itself then handles the interface
> to the parser class implementation.

True.  But in the meantime, dom::c is still fairly tightly coupled to
the expat parser so I was wondering about near-term changes.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...