[boost] Re: Re:Re: additional boost libraries?

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-20 19:54:44

Robert Ramey wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
> Note that the serialization library relies upon Spirit 100 % for XML
> parsing.

Regarding your problems using an older version of Spirit with lesser
compilers, would it make sense to split the serialization library so that
those who never use XML parsing wouldn't need to have a correct version of
Spirit for their compiler ?