Re: [boost] [GSOC] XML library of Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] [GSOC] XML library of Boost
From: Amos Ji (jmc891205_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-28 17:05:43

On Apr 28, 2013, at 12:11 PM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> On Monday 29 April 2013 02:08:01 Amos Ji wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm a graduate student from Fudan University in China. And I hope to
>> contribute some code to Boost during the GSOC.
>>
>> I've scanned the idea page. The ideas in the page are all very
interesting
>> and challenging. But what I'm interested in most is XML library, which is
>> at the bottom of page. I think the XML format is the most popular
standard
>> for storing information so it's important for Boost to have a good XML
>> library.
>
> Agreed, a good and fast XML library would be most useful.
>> In my opinion, an XML parser must be able to do these things:
>>
>>   1. To Iterate over DOM nodes tree;
>>   2. To access the values of nodes and their attributes quickly;
>>   3. To insert or delete nodes or attribute of an exact node easily;
>>   4. To generate new XML from the structure which stores XML in the
>>   library.
>
> IMHO, support for SAX is also mandatory. I would even say that SAX should
be
> the first and the primary thing to be implemented in Boost.XML, as DOM
can be
> added later on top of it if the time for GSOC allows.
>
I agree. SAX parser will use less memory than DOM parser. I'll add it into
my proposal.

> You also listed support for encodings in the optional features. I agree
with
> it being optional with exception for Unicode. At least UTF-8 should be
> supported from the very start. But that should not be a problem now that
we
> have Boost.Locale.
I know little about Boost.Locale. I'll see how it can help support other
encodings when I need.

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.
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