Re: XML Parsing libraries

Mark Doliner 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.
>  
No, we have an existing xml parser (which IIRC is gaim's code on top of 
glib's built in xml parser), and you haven't explained what's wrong with it.

> What about libxml2?  Or expat?
>  
I've never used either of those.
autopackage's cvs has a neat tool called visual-ldd, that shows 
dependencies as a tree view instead of how ldd dumps all of them in a 
flat list, not showing which are direct and which are indirect.(They 
also have a tool called apgcc that's a script around gcc that among 
other things eliminates bogus dependencies, e.g. keeps the gaim binary 
from being directly linked against the aspell shared library, because 
gaim never uses aspell and only links against it normally because 
pkg-config for gtkspell tells us to [It does this in case a version of 
gtkspell exists that doesn't need aspell])

This tool tells me that bin/gaim depends on libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 which 
depends on libfontconfig.so.1 which depends on libexpat.so.0
libpangoxft also depends on libXft.so.2 which depends on libexpat.so.0. 
This chain repeats itself, with Gaim->GtkSpell at the start.

gstreamer last I checked depends on libxml2, hopefully some day I finish 
the gstreamer version of gaim-vv.

--Tim



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