Re: [Xenocide-programming] xercesc

[mamutas <mam...@ho...>]

Hi Chris,

I am sorry to hear your frustrations about Xerces.

Let me update you on current situation. As far as I know no one has
integrated Xerces in Xenocide. Actually, that is my task, but I am busy with
OGRE and did not have chance to look at Xerces yet. As we stated in early
mails, 8MB is not a big problem nowadays, but having one of the most
powerful and flexible XML parser in Xenocide will have its certain benefits.
So far, I still plan to integrate Xerces into Xenocide.
Regarding OS, that is a different story. We do not have any plans to support
Xenocide on any other platform besides Windows. (RK, do we have a list of
what specific Win platforms we are going to support? I can't remember where
it is. We need to check it against Xerces platform list to make sure we are
covered there as well.)

Regards,
mamutas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <chr...@ju...>
To: <xen...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:51 PM
Subject: [Xenocide-programming] xercesc


>
>
> I have spent a GREAT deal of time trying to get xercesc to work properly
for our needs and have not succeeded at all.  Has anyone actually been able
to download (build) install and properly configure this package??
Unforunately I am stuck with WinME for windows and will need to do any
development in Linux for now.  So about two months ago (no joke) I
downloaded the Xercesc source (their binary used woefully outdated libraries
that are compatable with mine) and set out to compile and install it.  It
took me about 15 or 20 months or so to configure, compile and install it
with no errors!  Everything seems to be installed where it should be.
Unfortunately when I try to compile any code that includes a xerces header,
the compiler can't link it.  None of my other libraries do this and I've
even tried it with different compilers to no avail.  The only possibility I
can think of is that xerces uses obsolete libraries (at least in the linux
environment).  This seems consistent with the binaries that were available.
The also seemed obsolete.
>
> My experiences with xerces raised a few questions for me however.  Do we
really need xerces??  It seems to me that we would only be using 1% of it's
features.  Does it really matter if we don't have validation capability?
What the hell are we going to validate anyway??  We can validate all of our
XML before it even gets into the source tree, do we REALLY want to do this
at run time??  Does it make sense to load 8MB+ xerces classes to do
something that a less than 1MB class could do quite easily?  If you're
making some type of browser xerces may make since, but to me it seems like
more trouble than its worth.  In all the time it has taken me to not get
xerces working, I could probably have made a class that can parse basic XML
myself.  If no one else has gotten this to work then I think we should move
on.  If anyone has (expecially in Linux), let me know how you did it!  If it
just doesn't work for me, but does for everyone else, then I'll need
somthing else to work on. :-)
>
> Regards,
> chrisp
> ~
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