Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: Matthias Troyer (troyer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 09:39:34

On Nov 1, 2005, at 12:33 PM, David Abrahams wrote:

> 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?

Indeed this is the major stumbling block.

Matthias