Re: [Tclxml-users] "can't find package" using ActiveTcl 8.5

[Andreas K. <and...@ac...>]

Andrew Mole wrote:
> This is probably a basic question, in which case sorry. I have spent 
> some time looking through the documentation and doing web-searches, but 
> have not managed to work out where I am going wrong.

In general, we (ActiveState) trimmed ActiveTcl 8.5 down relative to ActiveTcl 
8.4. For AT 8.5. only the most important packages are still distributed with 
the ActiveTcl archive itself.

The other packages are not lost however. They can be installed from the TEApot 
repository using the 'teacup' client application.

For the documentation, see

	http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/at.pkg_index.html

and the big link 'TEApot Package Management' you can see on this page.

teacup itself is documented under

	http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/tpm/tpm/files/CTP_teacup.html

reachable from the index page. It also has command line help, invokable with

	% teacup help


Now, in the specific case of the TclXML packages, the main package is 'xml'. To 
work it however needs a series of other packages. Per the package index of 
'xml' you need either

	xml::tcl
	xmldefs
	xml::tclparser
or
	xml::c
	xmldefs
	xml::tclparser
	xml::expat	(optional)

The first set is for a pure Tcl solution, the second set has C components. 
Which are faster.


> This suggests to me that TclXML is *not* included. If so, it would be 
> nice if this were stated in the documentation.


Andreas