Re: [boost] Proposal: XML APIs in boost

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-09 21:24:22

Graham Bennett wrote:

> Yes, some degree of separation is a must.  Libxml2 is a very good and
> portable library, but explicit dependencies are a bad thing, especially
> if they can be avoided easily.

Easily ?!? You can't be serious. 'No dependencies' would imply to reimplement
the functionality provided by libxml2 entirely inside boost. If that is
easy I wonder why it hasn't happened so far.

Regards,
                Stefan