Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 06:33:54

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Some years ago I proposed a XML-related APIs for inclusion
> into boost (http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2003/06/48955.php).
> Everybody agreed that such APIs would be very useful as part of boost.
> Unfortunately, though, after some weeks of discussing a number of details,
> I got distracted, and so I never managed to submit an enhancement.
>
> I'v now started to look into this topic again, and wrote down a start
> of a DOM-like API as I believe would be suitable for boost.
>

IIUC the major obstacle to XML support is proper unicode support.
Don't we need a unicode library first?

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Dave Abrahams
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