Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: Suman Cherukuri (suman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-01 16:33:37

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> On Behalf Of Cromwell Enage
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost
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> --- Suman Cherukuri wrote:
> > May be I'm too late in this thread.
> 
> Your timing is perfect.
> 
> > Could someone explain what the benefits of the
> > proposed Boost XML APIs would be over the existing
> > Xerces (http://xml.apache.org/)?
> 
> I haven't looked at the design, but it seems that
> Boost.XML, like Arabica, will provide a C++ interface
> to make use of existing C parsers, e.g. libxml2 or
> xerces.
> 
>                               Cromwell D. Enage

Xerces has good C++ support.  I'm not sure if this discussion is about
extending 'C' based XML parsers like libxml2 and Expat to provide C++
interface or to have a whole new XML parser within Boost.  If it is later,
Why?

--Suman

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