Re: [boost] [Boost Review] Property Tree Library

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-22 05:30:23

Marcin Kalicinski wrote:
>>>It seems XML is even more complicated I thought it is, then ;-)
>>>If this is standard, it may be quite easy to implement includes in XML
>>>parser.
>>
>>So, are you gonna roll namespace-aware XML parser? This is not trivial
>>either, since there are things like default namespace and so on.
> 
> 
> I was not aware that includes are connected with namespaces. I think my XML 
> knowledge is not does not stand up to the need. I based my parser on Dan 
> Nuffer's sources, and hope he got the corner cases right :-) On the other 
> hand, if boost gets its XML library, my XML parser will be nothing more but 
> obsolete, so it may not be worthwhile to spend too much time on it at the 
> moment.

There are a number of applications that just needs a simple xml-parser. 
For example, most of the xml-files in my company are simple recursive
structures with a single id="42" attribute here and there. But that id 
could easily be put into a tag instead.

I have not yet understood why xml needs to be so sophisticated, and will 
probably continue to ignore all those wierd an advanced xml-features.

Anyway, Marcin's parser also builds a ptree which is a great benefit 
compared to the DOM parsers I have seen.

Just make sure it is well-defined what subset of xml that can be parsed 
and what cannot. In spirit of the library, anything that is not really 
easy and simple to support, should be rejected.

-Thorsten