Re: XML Parsing libraries

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:47:35 -0500, Mark Doliner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can we use an XML parsing library in Gaim?  It seems really silly to
> parse/write blist.xml, status.xml, accounts.xml, prefs.xml and pounces.xml the
> way we do.  And I don't really feel like writing an XML library when we can
> just use someone elses.  Maybe rendezvous or jabber could use it, too.
> 
> What about libxml2?  Or expat?

I agree on that.

I don't know much about those implementations but the few times I've
tried to mess with blist.xml handling code I desisted because I had to
learn how Gaim handles xml and that did not seem an easy task at the
moment.

So why not?

-- 
Felipe Contreras


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