Re: [boost] additional boost libraries?

From: John Fuller (jfuller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-20 07:47:30

Admittedly there are times I use expat (SOAP parsing) and times I use 
Apache (Xalan XPath parsing)...

It would be really nice to have a friendlier interface to XPath support,
as XPath expressions are being increasingly incorporated into web 
service messaging specifications.

On Jul 20, 2004, at 6:18 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Hi Aleksander,
>
>>  serialization/object persistance (via iostreams)
>
> It's about to appear in 1.32:
>
>      
> http://boost-consulting.com/boost/libs/serialization/doc/index.html
>
>>  network socket iostreams
>>  UUID stuff (sometimes know as GUIDs)
>>  interface to dlls/.so loading
>
> This is something I'd be interested to as well (including writing the 
> code).
> What specifically do you need from such a library? Something like:
>
>    boost::dll plugin("foo");
>    plugin["bar"].as<void (void)>();
>
> or something trickier, like:
>
>    - calling C++ functions:
>
>         plugin.call<void (void)>("bar") -- no need for "extern "C"
>
>     - some auto-registraction mechanisms
>
>       plugin_registry<CodeGenerator> plugins;
>       plugins.load("foo");
>       plugins.load("bar");
>
>       plugins["i386"].run(.......)
>
>> and, just out of curiosity:
>>  xml/html parsing
>
> None so far. In fact, it seems unlikely that somebody will come along 
> and
> implement all the XML stack (DOM, XPath, XML Schema, XSTL, whatever) 
> right
> now. One chance would be is somebody boostify some existing XML 
> toolkit --
> but which one?
>
> Another chance is to initially create "tiny XML" library. In fact, both
> regression tools and serialization have their own tiny XML parsers and 
> users
> aksed about XML support for program_options, so such library might 
> really be
> usefull.
>
> - Volodya
>
>
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