Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 11:14:41

Doug Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:33 AM, David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> IIUC the major obstacle to XML support is proper unicode support.
>> Don't we need a unicode library first?
>
> I don't agree with this. We need Unicode for handling XML documents, 
> yes, but there we don't need a Unicode library first and an XML library 
> second: we could accept a solid XML library (which is mainly about 
> navigation and manipulation of the XML tree) and drop a Unicode string 
> into it later on. Stefan is even proposing to parameterize over the 
> string type, so it becomes a non-issue.

Cool!

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Dave Abrahams
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