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

From: Daniel Wesslén (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-24 08:02:06

Thorsten Ottosen wrote:
> 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.

Schema validation, XInclude and encodings could be transparently 
supported. Sure, some advanced features wouldn't map neatly to a 
property_tree, but that is no reason to rule out support for those that do.

-- 
Daniel Wesslén