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

From: Thorsten Ottosen (thorsten.ottosen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-24 06:56:37

Daniel Wesslén wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
>>It would be pretty bad if Boost has property_tree that reads "simple" XML
>>*and* another XML library, with different interface that has full support
>>for XML. How am I to choose one or another library? 
> 
> 
> When boost gets a full XML library then the property_tree XML parser 
> could (should, IMO) be replaced with a wrapper over that one. What's the 
> problem?

There is no need for that. As long as the scope of the xml-parser for
a property tree is well-defined wrt. what subset of xml it can handle, 
the user is free to choose.

It is not obvious how more advanced xml-features should map to a 
property-tree, and it is quite thinkable that it does not make much 
sense to use those together.

-Thorsten